While it's a mostly idle airfield, the Miami-Dade facility seized by Florida has a runway longer than some at MIA.

"This is an existing airstrip that is already built and paved," the office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told Newsweek.

The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," is part of a storied history involving Palm Beach County at ...