The state plans to spend up to $6 million to stand up Baker Correctional Institution to hold more than 1,300 people awaiting deportation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced the opening of a second immigration detention facility, dubbed "Deportation Depot," at the Baker Correctional Institution to hold up to 2,000 detainees, while a federal judge considers the future of the state's controversial holding center for immigrants at the Everglades airstrip known as "Alligator Alcatraz.

The state says it will run the new center from an empty prison that could hold 2,000 federal detainees. This one will be called “Deportation Depot.”