TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ administration has taken early steps to build a second immigration detention center to join Alligator Alcatraz, awarding at least one contract for what’s labeled in state records as the “North Detention Facility.”

The Florida Division of Emergency Management, the state agency that built Alligator Alley, has awarded a $39,000 contract for a portable emergency response weather station and two lightning sirens for the second center, dubbed the “North Detention Facility,” according to records in the state’s public contract database.

The site would add to the capacity at Alligator Alcatraz, located at an isolated airfield in the Florida Everglades, where state officials have inked more than $245 million in contracts. Alligator A

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