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A federal judge sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, ruling the state must wind down operations at the immigrant detention facility in the Everglades.

Dubbed the "Deportation Depot," Gov. Ron DeSantis called the vacant Baker County prison a "ready-made infrastructure." It's expected to open in a few weeks.

The DeSantis administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a shuttered state prison in north Florida.

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe asked for the preliminary injunction. The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for ICE.

The governor says a similar immigrant detention center is planned at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training center outside of Jacksonville.

A federal judge in Miami will hear arguments Wednesday over the controversial immigrant detention center located in the remote Florida Everglades.

The order is part of a civil rights lawsuit. Federal and state officials must produce agreements showing who has legal authority at the new immigrant detention facility.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says the state's housing capacity for the immigration effort is "a drop in the bucket."

Activists that organized the protest advocated that those in attendance consider employing civil disobedience in response to Florida’s controversial new immigration detention centers.

A class-action lawsuit alleges that people being held at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades "effectively have no way to contest their detention."