As Florida rushes to build and open its immigration detention center in the Everglades, officials and advocates are sharply divided over the facility’s true purpose.
Between 2019 and 2022, Pew Research reported, about 400,000 illegal immigrants moved to Florida, bringing the total in the Sunshine State to an estimated 1.2 million.
Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a Jan. 6, 2023, executive order declaring a state of emergency in response to the mass migration issue he attributed to an inadequate immigration policy under the Biden administration.
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