An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational, according to Florida officials.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades that he has dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz.

The facility, located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands, is just days away from being operational.