The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

President Trump on Tuesday toured the site of a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are visiting the facility alongside the president.

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration policy that restricts migrants who cross the southern border from seeking asylum. In a 128-page order, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss wrote that President Donald Trump cannot "adopt an alternative immigration system,

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said Trump’s proclamation declaring an “invasion” at the border cannot be used to justify the unilateral restrictions he sought to impose on asylum seekers.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying Trump exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.