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Alligator Alcatraz could open as soon as next week. Check out the plans underway and the trucks going in and out of the airport, as advocates fight the new migrant deportation center. #florida #alligator #alcatraz fox4now.com

Florida officials are moving quickly to convert an old airstrip deep in the Everglades into a new temporary migrant detention center — a project now nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

On Wednesday, dozens of loaded trucks were seen entering the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has authorized emergency construction to help speed up deportations amid a federal crackdown.

"We had a request from the federal government to do it — and so, Alligator Alcatraz it is," DeSantis said at a Wednesday press conference in Tampa. "It'll be a force multiplier — it'll help DHS, it'll help our state and law enforcement by relieving some of the burden on resources," he added.

The site was originally planned to become the world’s largest airport in the 1960s, but the project was abandoned over environmental concerns and amid the collapse of the supersonic jet era. Today, only one runway remains, surrounded by swamp, alligators, and other wildlife. State leaders argue the remote location makes it an ideal site for a low-cost detention facility.

Many Environmental advocates, however, strongly oppose the plan.