Miccosukee Tribe

A federal judge in Miami refused to pause her order to wind down the Everglades facility. Attorneys for Homeland Security requested a stay, arguing the ruling would disrupt immigration enforcement.

It's seeking a stay of a preliminary injunction issued last week in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and joined by the Miccosukee Tribe.

Plaintiffs react following judges order to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over the next 60 days

"This is a landmark victory for the Everglades and countless Americans who believe this imperiled wilderness should be protected, not exploited," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, in a statement.

A lawsuit challenging construction and operations of an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as 'Alligator Alley' has wrapped up with several key questions unanswered.

The Trump and DeSantis administrations have characterized the region as a treacherous swamp where little more than alligators and pythons reside. The Miccosukee call this place home—and have so for generations.

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe asked for the preliminary injunction. The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Members of the Miccosukee Tribe are trying to join a lawsuit challenging an immigrant detention center in the Everglades.

For Florida’s Native American tribes, the watershed is sacred. A new National Academies report says the federal and state agencies guiding Everglades restoration can learn a lot from them.

The tribe celebrated plans to spend the money to replace gas and diesel-burning school buses and other vehicles with electric vehicles at a ceremony that included students and federal officials.

Their proposal comes amid continued interest in expanding oil production within the Big Cypress National Preserve, an Everglades wilderness they consider sacred.

A 30-year plan to restore the Everglades impacts millions of people who live, work and play in South Florida, from fishing captains and others who make their living on the water to birders and recreationists to scientists, Miccosukees and environmentalists who have invested professional and personal lives in the world’s largest environmental restoration project.