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In Florida, where the governor has promised to lead the immigration crackdown, increased arrests mirror the national trend, especially for those with no criminal background.

The Trump administration Thursday argued a federal judge should deny a request to block operation of a detention center in the Everglades for undocumented immigrants, saying Florida has been responsible for the project dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

President Donald Trump said migrants would need to know "how to run away from an alligator" to flee the new detention center he's visiting on Tuesday in a remote area of the Florida Everglades.

Special VIP Movement Notifications issued for both Palm Beach and Ochopee for Tuesday could be an indication that President Donald Trump may be making a visit to the "Alligator Alcatraz" site being prepared in the Everglades in eastern Collier County.

On "The Florida Roundup," Kate Payne with AP and Ted Hesson with Reuters talk about how the Everglades facility has been called temporary, but the timeline of its existence is unknown.

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades. The lawsuit filed Friday seeks to halt the project until it undergoes a stringent environmental review as required by federal law. The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court says there is also supposed to be a chance for public comment.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he believes people are trying to use the Everglades as a "pretext" for opposing immigration enforcement. He also mentioned there may be plans to do something similar at Camp Blanding in North Florida.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday plans to turn an old Everglades jetport inside Big Cypress National Preserve into a 5,000-bed immigrant detention facility.

By the several hundreds on Sunday, people gathered outside the gates of an abandoned airport tarmac in a remote area off U.S. 41 protesting that Florida is proposing to be the next site of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. The state is calling it the Alligator Alcatraz.

As President Donald Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, Krome, the United States' oldest immigration detention facility and one with a long history of abuse, saw its prisoner population recently swell to nearly three times its capacity of 600.

The operation began Monday and targeted immigrants living in the country illegally with final deportation orders, according to an ICE official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. The officers picked up more than 275 migrants with final removal orders, the data showed.

At least 27 agencies across the nation are currently listed as having submitted applications to the program, including agencies in Texas, Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Nearly half of the pending applications are from Florida law enforcement agencies.