At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Environmentalists are suing to stop the opening of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility that will hold up to 3,000 detainees in Florida’s Everglades. A pet project of the governor championed by Republicans,

DeSantis’ broader use of emergency power comes as U.S. presidents have also leaned on their emergency authority. Elena Chachko, a law professor at Berkeley Law School, said that both Trump and Biden employed emergency power in broad and ambitious ways.