COLUMBIA — South Carolina's Republican candidates for governor are pitching ideas to build a detention center for undocumented migrants in the Palmetto State.

The question is: Where would it go?

Amid the call to build their own version of Florida's infamous 3,000-person detention compound known as "Alligator Alcatraz," the campaigns have offered few specifics.

Ralph Norman, the U.S. congressman from Rock Hill now running for governor, said he would support creating a detention center — dubbing it "the Carolina Crook House" — to house those wanted for deportation due to criminal charges, though he did not offer specifics on where it might be built or how.

Lt. Gov. Pam Evette endorsed a site dubbed the "Palmetto Pen" in an op-ed to Fox News last month. She said the state had "some promis

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