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ARTICLE VIEW:
Florida’s new immigrant detention site dubbed ‘Deportation Depot’
is now taking detainees, officials say
By Isabel Rosales, Shawn Nottingham, Emma Tucker, CNN
Updated:
8:03 AM EDT, Sat September 6, 2025
Source: CNN
Florida has opened its second immigration detention site, dubbed
“,” amid an ongoing legal battle over its controversial
“Alligator Alcatraz” facility.
The facility is at a temporarily closed state prison, the Baker
Correctional Institution, which is housing 117 detainees with the
capacity to hold 1,500 people, according to the office of Gov. Ron
DeSantis. It is about 45 miles west of Jacksonville near the Osceola
National Forest.
“Deportation Depot” opened a day after a federal appeals court
temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring the state and federal
government to shut down “,” located deep in the marshy wetlands of
the Everglades.
The facility, wrapped in tall, wire fencing, is made up of a number of
a squat, single-story buildings. Guard towers are positioned
strategically around the campus and, out front, a Humvee is parked next
to a white pop-up tent.
Other states have announced similar sites to supplement what the Trump
administration has described as limited capacity in immigration
detention centers nationwide. “Deportation Depot” is part of that
equation and just one part of the Florida governor’s push for an
expansion of the state’s detention centers to hold immigrants.
DeSantis is doubling down on his plans to build a third detention site
in Florida’s panhandle, which he has called “Panhandle Pokey,”
along with another facility at a Florida National Guard training center
known as , roughly 30 miles southwest of Jacksonville.
Other proposed immigration facilities include Indiana’s “” and
Louisiana’s “Camp 57,” located at the country’s largest
maximum-security prison. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly
known as Angola, is an 18,000-acre facility situated an hour north of
Baton Rouge.
The new detention facilities are emerging as the White House to make at
least 3,000 immigration-related arrests per day as part of the
administration’s mass deportation efforts.
Many detainees have so far been sent to Guantanamo Bay or deported to .
Back in Florida, “Deportation Depot” was just before a federal
judge placed a preliminary injunction on “Alligator Alcatraz” that
would have effectively shut that site down.
Since a federal appeals court stayed the lower court’s order to force
the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state has said it will
continue transporting detainees out of there.
The ruling was a major blow to environmental groups, who asking a judge
to block operations and construction at the site until environmental
laws are followed.
The Everglades site had been the subject of intense criticism for its
treatment of migrants who had been confined there amid , prompting
members of Congress and state representatives that witnessed the
conditions to demand its immediate closure.
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