Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.

Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, on Saturday toured the Everglades migrant detention site, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," and denounced the facility as an "internment camp.