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Florida opened a second migrant detention facility called "Deportation Depot," which is now accepting detainees, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox News on Friday.

The detention facility is inside the former Baker Correctional Institution located in Sanderson, in the northern part of the state.

The first detainees arrived on Tuesday, Sept. 2. As of Friday, 117 people are being held there. The facility has the capacity to house up to 1,500 detainees.

"The Baker County facility will now be a great supplement to Alligator Alcatraz. We'll use as many of the detention spaces as we can," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told Fox News. "We want to fill them up. We want deliver on this mission. The Baker County sit

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