The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

Facility, set to house 1,000 people, will be built on the site of an abandoned runway

Remote detention facility to house up to 5,000 migrants, who will have ‘nowhere to go’.

Surrounded by alligator infested swamps, BBC Mundo visited the site forming part of the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda.