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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."

Tribe members are trying to join a lawsuit over the immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. It neighbors Tribe villages in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Democrats report unsanitary conditions at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades, while Republicans say the facility is being operated safely.

The state legislators say they were not allowed to tour the migrant detention facility in the Everglades when they made a surprise visit on July 3rd.

The offer of a tour comes after some Democratic lawmakers were denied access last week, even though they say they have the legal right to visit any time without warning.