Overview

• The facility began operations July 1 under Interior Secretary Kristi Noem as a holding site for up to 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation
• Built in just eight days on an abandoned airstrip, the camp is projected to cost about $450 million per year
• Trump warned the site could be “tougher than the first Alcatraz” and urged states to build similar centers
• The administration also plans to double national migrant detention capacity to 100,000 beds by year-end
• Migrant-rights groups, environmentalists and Native American tribes have protested its placement on sacred, ecologically sensitive Everglades land