Florida officials have said the detention facility, which has been described as temporary, will rely on heavy-duty tents, trailers, and other impermanent buildings, allowing the state to operationalize 5,

While building is already underway for the Everglades facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that his administration is working on erecting a second, state-run immigration center at Camp Blanding, the Florida National Guard base located about an hour southwest of Jacksonville.

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational.