GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The second immigrant detention facility since Alligator Alcatraz” will be at Baker Correctional Institute, a vacant prison in a remote part of Baker County.

“We have identified this location. It will be able to hold more than 1300 illegal alien detainees. You will have the same services that you have at Alligator Alcatraz. Costs will be reimbursed by our federal partners,” Governor Ron DeSantis said at a press conference.

Protesters say the deportation facilities are inhumane and not a solution to anything.

“Their plan continues to violate fundamental human rights and further entrenches the state’s machinery of mass detention. We have said from the beginning, ‘Not now, not here, not ever.’ The processes and conditions of these facilities of these internment ca

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