Emails show that while southwest Florida officials were still chasing rumors about the sprawling “Alligator Alcatraz” facility, state agents were already on-site, rushing vendors through the gates to

TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migr

It remains to be seen if the current Governor and the potential future Governor can figure out a functional dynamic in the next year and a half.

A prominent Democratic state representative in Florida is alleging that private contracts to build and maintain the controversial immigrant detention facility in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" vanished from the online Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System just a day after she accessed them,