"History is repeating itself." Nonprofit sues US government over construction of new 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility: 'America's worst idea' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A tribal leader told Newsweek that he and members in the Big Cypress National Preserve of Florida, which is adjacent to the state's Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, are seeking legal remedies against officials because environmental efforts are taking "a huge step backward."

The seven articles below about Alligator Alcatraz focus on conditions, motivations, and controversies surrounding the Everglades detention facility. Catch up with the coverage below.

Nearly three dozen 911 calls have been made from an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, and new records are shedding some light on what the calls are about.

New reports from detainees and their families at Florida's newly opened migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," describe troubling conditions inside the facility