Gov. Henry McMaster is one of several governors around the country leaving the door open to build something similar to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz."

A federal judge in Chicago has temporarily barred the Trump administration from redirecting funds intended to support services for migrants in Chicago, Denver, and Pima County, Ariz., after attorneys raised concerns that the money would instead go toward funding the new “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility.

The Democrats took their battle against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies to Florida on Saturday, as they toured Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Alligator Alcatraz, the new detainment facility for illegal immigrants.

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same

During an hours-long visit on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top state and federal officials celebrated the opening of the new Florida-run immigration detention center in the Everglades as a major milestone in a joint mass deportation campaign.

Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit.

Opponents decry it as a political stunt and fear it could become a permanent fixture. The Republican Party of Florida has taken to fundraising off the detention center, selling branded T-shirts and beer koozies emblazoned with the facility’s name.

Some GOP donors whose companies helped build and will assist in running the facility are being given seven-figure sums.