Florida to use shuttered prison as 2nd immigration detention center after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Immigration,Deportations,Florida,Unauthorized Immigration
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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state will open a second immigration detention center inside a now-shuttered state prison in North Florida as the fate of its first such facility in the Everglades lies in the hands of a federal judge.
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