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's decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast becoming one of the most controversial symbols of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

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.