Florida to open 2nd immigration detention center that officials are calling 'Deportation Depot'

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' medication is preparing to unfastened a 2nd migration detention installation astatine a authorities situation successful northbound Florida, arsenic a national justice decides the destiny of the state's holding halfway for immigrants astatine an isolated airstrip successful the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

DeSantis announced Thursday that the caller installation is to beryllium housed astatine the Baker Correctional Institution, a authorities situation astir 43 miles (69 kilometers) westbound of Jacksonville. It is expected to clasp 1,300 migration detention beds, though that capableness could beryllium expanded to 2,000, authorities officials said.

After opening the Everglades installation past month, DeSantis justified opening the 2nd detention center, dubbed "Deportation Depot" by the state, by saying President Donald Trump's medication needs the further capableness to clasp and deport much immigrants.

"There is simply a request for this," DeSantis said. "I'm assured it volition beryllium filled."