TALLAHASSEE — 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.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is turning a shuttered state prison into another state-run immigration detention center that can hold up to 1,300 people.While a federal judge considers whether to shut down a detention facility that Donald Trump’s administration and Florida officials are calling Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades,