The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently seized from Miami-Dade County using emergency powers.

President Donald Trump personally thanked Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at a roundtable during his visit on Tuesday to the state’s new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.

There was no evidence of the onetime rivalry between Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis as they came together for the opening of the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention center.