Florida opening new ICE jail named Deportation Depot inside former prison that can hold up to 1300 people
Florida opening new ICE jail named Deportation Depot inside former prison that can hold up to 1300 people
Ron DeSantis announced a new immigration detention center at the former Baker Correctional Institution
“This will be operational soon, it is not going to take forever, but we are also not rushing to do this right this day,” DeSantis said Thursday.
The prison — located within a rural stretch of the state between Tallahassee and Jacksonville — will operate inside Baker Correctional Institution, joining a new wave of state-run detention centers working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to boost the president’s mass deportation agenda.
“The reason for this is not to just house people indefinitely. We want to process, stage and then return illegal aliens to their home country. That is the name of the game,” DeSantis said.