The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.

Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the Everglades.

The creation and celebration of "Alligator Alcatraz," the hastily built detention center in the heart of mosquito-infested Florida swampland, marks a new dehumanizing low in the Trump administration's indiscriminate and cruel posture toward immigrants.

“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ” IS JUST THE LATEST in a series of cruel spectacles that mark Trump’s deportation and detention efforts. Collectively, they are contributing to a turn in public opinion.

In the rush to criminalize brown bodies and politicize fear, we are witnessing racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow, Annette Taddeo argues. | Opinion

If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.

Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.

Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, logistical headaches have emerged at “Alligator Alcatraz.”