Florida Plans More Immigrant Camps After Making 20,000 Arrests
Security at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in Ochopee, Florida.
Photographer: Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Getty ImagesFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to build more detention camps after local cops made 20,000 immigration-related arrests in less than a year, giving the state an out-sized role in President Donald Trump’s deportation dragnet.
The state plans to build two additional detention camps after outfitting and opening two facilities since June, DeSantis said Monday at a state detention camp in Sanderson. Law enforcement agencies across the state are ramping up arrests in conjunction with federal immigration agents, he said.