Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.

The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.

Fernando Artese had plans to voluntarily leave the country before he was arrested last month for driving with a suspended license, his daughter said.

Governor Henry McMaster and Lt. Governor Pamela Evette have recently appeared open to creating a facility similar to "Alligator Alcatraz" in South Carolina. READ MORE:

A political activist and constituent of Republican House Speaker Daniel Perez is organizing a “State Emergency Town Hall on Wednesday, beginning at 7 p.m., at the Kendall Community Pavilion in Miami-Dade County.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced that five Republican-led states are in active discussions with the federal government to replicate Florida's recently opened migrant detention facility,

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.