Gov. Ron DeSantis is using emergency powers to seize an airfield in the Florida Everglades and make a proposed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center a reality, administration officials said Tuesday.

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security.

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.