DeSantis announced plans to convert a shuttered North Florida prison into an immigration detention center, replacing a costlier proposed site.

Florida Republican Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida will open a second immigration detention, processing and deportation facility, dubbed "Deportation Depot" by Gov. Ron DeSantis, in about two weeks. The new site, at the Baker Correctional Institution near Lake City in the northeast part of the state,

The city's policies "thwart federal immigration enforcement to the detriment of the interests of the United States," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless of any city law.