A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz - that is the official name - was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald Trump visited the remote site on opening day, built at an old runway near the Miami-Dade and Collier county line.

Florida lawmakers have voiced their concern over the possibility, and five were recently denied entry into the facility.

Democratic Florida lawmakers who attempted to enter "Alligator Alcatraz" on Thursday were barred after they expressed "humanitarian concerns" about the new Everglades detention center.