The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an immigrant detention center.

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security. “Alligator Alcatraz,

Gov. Ron DeSantis is using emergency powers to seize an airfield in the Florida Everglades and make a proposed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center a reality, administration officials said Tuesday.