undocumented immigrants

Governor Ron DeSantis said during a Tuesday press conference he is in talks with law enforcement in Panama City about opening a third immigration detention facility there.

The information delivered in an email comes less than a week after a federal judge ordered the detention center to wind down operations within 60 days.

Attorney General James Uthmeier and Governor Ron DeSantis have been raising alarms about the issue after an undocumented truck driver caused a fatal collision in the state.

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.