Many are rejecting the idea, citing environmental concerns — including Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades, Eve Samples.

If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said.

Friends of the Everglades on Sunday is organizing a protest to a proposed plan by state officials to build a massive detention center to house and process suspected undocumented immigrants on the site of a jetport in the Everglades.