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.

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being called Alligator Alcatraz.

Environmental groups, citizens, including Native Americans, came out to protest the building and opening of a 5,000-bed immigration detention center in the Everglades.

Indigenous groups and environmentalists are protesting the construction of a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Crews are racing to build the facility in the Everglades, but environmental groups have filed a lawsuit to block it,