Florida Plans More Immigrant Camps After Making 20,000 Arrests

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to build more detention camps after local cops made 20,000 immigration-related arrests in less than a year, giving the state an out-sized role in President Donald Trump’s deportation dragnet.

The state plans to build two additional detention camps after outfitting and opening two facilities since June, DeSantis said Monday at a state detention camp in Sanderson. Law enforcement agencies across the state are ramping up arrests in conjunction with federal immigration agents, he said.

“There’s no other state that’s been able to to anything approaching what the state of Florida has done in immigration,” ...