"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.

Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can stop the project.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Friday that a new migrant detention center located deep in the Everglades will begin housing detainees as early as Tuesday.