"Gov. Ron DeSantis has plowed ahead with developing the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport ... in hopes of detaining up to 5,000 people there."

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational.

Federal and state officials’ swift plan to build an immigration detention facility in the heart of Florida’s Everglades has come under fire from environmental groups, indigenous leaders and local officials.