Alligator Alcatraz may have been built in eight days, but Florida's race to become the top spot for President Donald Trump's deportation agenda has been building for months.

President Donald Trump traveled to a remote area of South Florida to tour the state’s newest immigration detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” on Tuesday, coinciding with the same day the government planned to move its first detainees into the facility.

There is a debate over the opening of Florida's immigration detention facility in South Florida known as 'Alligator Alcatraz'.