Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of information, recreation and access to medication.

Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.

How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air conditioning? Showers?

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

Since Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades, was proposed in June, it has sparked a lot of reactions across the nation. President Donald Trump toured the

Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit.

The U.S. arm of Montreal-based security giant GardaWorld — which holds a federal contract to secure the controversial migrant detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — is hiring armed guards for a facility in the same Florida community.

"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting," Uthmeier told "Fox Business."

One article describes conditions with detainees reporting issues like plumbing failures, temperature extremes and large insects inside the facility. Another highlights Gov. Ron DeSantis' use of emergency powers to expedite construction, drawing parallels to previous emergency responses.

Immigration arrests are sharply up around the country, and Florida is sending some to Alligator Alcatraz. But did Obama deport more people than Trump?

Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN’s Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility,

Democrats also focused on what they said they learned at the facility: They said officials clarified repeatedly that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “calling the shots” at the detention center — an open question after the agency’s acting deputy associate director of enforcement and removal operations downplayed federal involvement.