Mayor Donna Deegan speaks to reporters about her veto of a local immigration bill at City Hall. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today.

The Baker Correctional Institution became Florida's second immigration detention center. | Kaley Mantz, Fresh Take Florida

A police officer urges Art Sennholtz, 80, center, and Christy Howard, 70, of Just Us Volusia to be careful of fast-moving traffic as they hold protest signs outside the entrance to an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" on Aug. 28, 2025. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

An immigration detension center in the Everglades has been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

A fuel truck delivers gas at a station in Davie. | Jullian Cain Photography, stock.adobe.com

Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades on July 4, 2025. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP file

A barbed wire fence surrounds the Baker Correctional Institution, which is set to turn into Florida's second immigration detention facility in Sanderson., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. | Kaley Mantz, Fresh Take Florida

A protester stands outside the migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Facility on July 12, 2025, in Ochopee. | Alexandra Rodriguez, AP

A protester stands outside the migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Facility on July 12, 2025, in Ochopee. | Alexandra Rodriguez, AP

An immigration detension center in the Everglades has been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump visited and toured the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in July.

President Donald Trump participates in a walking tour of the immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 1, 2025. | Official White House photo by Daniel Torok

Workers install a sign reading "Alligator Alcatraz" at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility on July 3, 2025, in Ochopee. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

Gov. Ron DeSantis discusses illegal immigration during a news conference Jan. 23, 2025, in Jacksonville. He is flanked by Rep. Kiyan Michael, R-Jacksonville, and Sheriff T.K. Waters. | Ron DeSantis, Facebook

President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others tour "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida. | Evan Vucci, AP

Mayor Donna Deegan speaks to reporters about her veto of a local immigration bill at City Hall. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today.

Protesters gather in front of Jacksonville City Hall on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 against a Jacksonville City Council ordinance targeting spending on undocumented residents. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville City Council member Rory Diamond, shown here in a 2023 photo | Jacksonville Daily Record

City Councilman Rory Diamond on Oct. 22. | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville City Council President-designate Kevin Carrico, left, and Vice President-designate Nick Howland celebrate after their elections Tuesday night. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier speaks during a meeting between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee on March 5, 2025. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, 20, a U.S. citizen, hugs his mother in Tallahassee after his release from jail on Thursday, April 17, 2025. | Thomas Kennedy via AP

Andrea Reyes is a Jacksonville immigration attorney who expects a local ordinance that can send undocumented immigrants to jail for up to 60 days will be challenged in court. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain a person, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. |AP Photo/Alex Brandon