Read our Privacy noticeDetainees have been pepper-sprayed on at least two occasions at a Florida immigration detention center dubbed “Deportation Depot" since it opened this past September. The northeast Florida facility is the second immigration detention center opened by the state of Florida, following “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades earlier last summer. The state is awaiting approval from federal officials to open a third immigration detention center in the Florida Panhandle and is also looking into a potential fourth detention facility in South Florida, Gov. The Trump administration has trumpeted the Republican governors’ efforts to expand their immigration detention capacity, calling Florida’s partnership a model for other state-run holding facilities. Three federal lawsuits in Florida are challenging practices at the Everglades facility.