The state filed a 22-page response to a motion filed by Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the facility.

The holding facility gets its “Alligator Alcatraz” nickname from the remote location in the Florida Everglades. The large wetland filled with alligators, crocodiles and pythons

Leavitt announced during her press briefing on Monday that Trump will be traveling to Florida on Tuesday to tour the new immigration detention facility located at an isolated airfield in the state’s Everglades. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has hailed the project as helping enact Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Tallahassee — Gov. Ron DeSantis approved an austere $115 billion spending plan on the last day of the fiscal year Monday, one that is less than the current budget yet still delivers almost $1 billion in tax savings for Florida businesses.

"I think it was true prior to me signing this budget, but I think signing the budget underscores the fact that Florida is the best fiscally managed state in these United States," DeSantis said at an event in Wildwood on June 30.

DeSantis used the event to tout a slate of familiar talking points, railing against a self-described democratic socialist running for New York City mayor, while touting his own cr