Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the new facility is to be housed at the Baker Correctional Institution, a state prison about 43 miles west of Jacksonville.

The state will “soon” open another immigrant detention facility, this one at Baker Correctional Institution, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday. The governor made the announcement during a news conference outside the facility,

The DeSantis administration is making arrangements to hold immigrant detainees at a North Florida prison as a federal judge weighs whether to temporarily shut down Alligator Alcatraz, the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades.