It was a publicity stunt from the get-go.
The Everglades is a wetland under siege from development. There’s no economic use to it except for expanding urban sprawl, and everything there had to be built from scratch, including water and sewage and landfill.
Building more detention space would have been doable at a fraction of the cost anywhere else in the state of Florida, and in fact DeSantis announced just today another “Deportation Depot” at an already-existing correction facility just out side of Jacksonville.
It wasn’t a stunt.
It got illegals self-deporting big time.