The plan to build an immigration detention facility at Camp Blanding in Clay County is meeting with community pushback on the heels of the opening of Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades.

ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.

Protesters gathered at Miami's Torch of Friendship to rally against Trump on Independence Day. Credit: Removal Coalition/ Jessica Denson via YouTube.

Protesters demonstrated against the migrant detention facility being constructed in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” It comes as the construction process appeared to speed up over the weekend.

Indigenous leaders with ancestral ties to the area spanning thousands of years have condemned the state's plans to construct the facility.

Hundreds protest Florida's new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," as Gov. DeSantis says it will open Tuesday.

Carved from the Big Cypress National Preserve, the new migrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz is now open for business

Some of the objections to the facility are that it's located in an alligator and snake-infested swamp. I've also read that some have complained about the Florida heat. Though any facility in Florida is subject to it being hot. It is Florida. Oh, and it's also air-conditioned.