DeSantis looking to build second state-run migrant detention center in Florida. Miami Herald 📰

The DeSantis administration is looking to build not one, but two immigration detention camps in Florida — one in the Everglades nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz and the other on a military base in North Florida.

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.

“These facilities will be force multipliers for immigration enforcement in cooperation with the federal government,” DeSantis’ communications director Bryan Griffin said in a statement to the Herald/Times.

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