Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s aggressive push to support the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

While building is already underway for the Everglades facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that his administration is working on erecting a second, state-run immigration center at Camp Blanding, the Florida National Guard base located about an hour southwest of Jacksonville.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says new immigration detention centers in Florida will be largely funded by FEMA's shelter and services program.