Florida's attorney general proposed using a 30-square-mile part of the Everglades to house, process, and deport detained migrants.

Uthmeier said the detention center could be up and running in 30 to 60 days once construction starts. He compared it to the former maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco. Trump has called for reopening the prison for “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”