Florida lawmakers are touring a controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades. The facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," was rapidly built on a remote airstrip and houses 3,000 detainees.

Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.

MIAMI — Democrats on Saturday called for the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz” after touring the controversial pop-up tent immigration detention center that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis quickly assembled in the Everglades.