Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is hoping his state will follow Florida’s lead and help the Trump administration by making a facility available to temporarily detain illegal immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility is a state-funded immigration detention site Florida built at the remote Dade-Collier Training & Transition Airport in the Everglades to give ICE additional capacity to hold migrants pending removal.

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe sued, arguing the state sidestepped federal environmental review requirements. On Sept. 4, a divided 11th Circuit panel (2–1) put a lower court’s shutdown order on hold, noting the record showed no federal funding that would trigger NEPA, which allows Florida

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