In a surprising and possibly unlawful act, five state legislators were denied entry Thursday into a taxpayer-funded migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, raising questions about what will happen behind the razor-wire fences that are being erected surrounding the controversial facility the state has named Alligator Alcatraz.

Five Florida Democratic legislators were denied access to an immigration detention center built in The Everglades by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.