Standing in front of the Baker Correctional Institution, closed since 2021, Gov. DeSantis unveiled the new name: the "Deportation Depot."

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.