The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

More than five dozen Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, demanding “critical” information on the Trump administration’s plan for the new Florida immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.

A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

A hiker has been hospitalized after an alligator attacked and bit her on a Florida hiking trail, authorities say. The woman, who has not been identified, was hiking on the Bird Rookery Swamp Trail in Collier County, between Naples and Fort Myers, when the incident took place on Sunday, August 17.

At a hearing Monday, a group of detainees at the facility is asking U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz, a Trump appointee, to issue an order that would require the state of Florida and the Trump administration to expand legal access at the controversial facility.

A Florida federal judge heard arguments about the conditions at "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Everglades but gave no ruling or injunction.