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. “Alligator Alcatraz,

The Department of Homeland Security signed plans to house up to 5,000 people in Florida who are either arrested by state officers or detained by federal immigration authorities.

The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an immigrant detention center.