Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades that he has dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz.

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational.

Called "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday during a stop in Boca Raton that the facility will have "zero impact" on the Everglades.