Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can stop the project.

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A detention facility dubbed,

The state’s emergency rules allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend state laws and a competitive bidding process to award millions of dollars from an account he alone controls.

The ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Americans for Immigrant Justice are working with inmates at the an immigrant detainment facility and other groups representing them, including Florida Keys Immigration, Sanctuary of the South, U.S. Immigration Law Counsel, Victoria Slatton of Sanabria & Associates, and the Law Offices of Catherine Perez, PLLC.

Jim Beever spent much of his career reviewing large developments in the Collier County area, which is where the detention center is being built.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the detention site is expected to open in July in the Everglades. Here's what else we know.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.