The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently seized from Miami-Dade County using emergency powers.

If someone escapes, you know, there’s a lot of alligators. No one’s going anywhere.” That’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, justifying the reasoning for the state’s newest and most contentious immigration detention facility,

President Trump and Gov. DeSantis walked the site on Tuesday morning. DeSantis said they will be accepting the first detainees on Wednesday.