The fight over "Alligator Alcatraz," the proposed immigration detention center on an airstrip in the Everglades, is ramping up — with environmental groups taking the state to court as it races to complete the facility.

Environmental groups sued to stop construction of "Alligator Alcatraz," a migrant site in the Florida Everglades.

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.