Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz described limited access to water and fresh air, saying they received only one meal a day and that the lights are on 24/7.

The giddy, extremely online cruelty around the Florida detention facility reveals contempt for popular opinion.

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same

Despite Monday evening thunderstorms, a small group of protesters stood outside Alligator Alcatraz, voicing concerns over the treatment of detainees and the center's environmental footprint. The demonstration, though modest in numbers, brought together individuals from across the state and beyond.

Butcher is one of south Florida's most well-known artists, and he's grown famous for his black-and-white landscape pictures of the Everglades.

CBS News Miami's Chelsea Jones reports from outside Alligator Alcatraz, where protesters gathered in the rain Monday afternoon to voice their opposition to the facility.

People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

The tribe will keep fighting to “protect the land and save the land that saved us,” said the tribal council secretary.

Potential effects include increased light and air pollution, habitat degradation for endangered species such as the Florida panther, and waste spills.

DeSantis said he's considering standing up a facility at a Florida National Guard training center known as Camp Blanding, about 30 miles southwest of Jacksonville.