Florida will open a second immigration detention, processing and deportation facility, dubbed "Deportation Depot" by Gov. Ron DeSantis, in about two weeks. The new site, at the Baker Correctional Institution near Lake City in the northeast part of the ...

Florida is preparing to hold immigrant detainees at a new detention facility in a remote, northern part of the state, the second since the makeshift detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” opened in the Everglades just over a month ago.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed ''Deportation Depot'' at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state's holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades known as ''Alligator Alcatraz.