Florida officials argue a lawsuit over the Everglades detention center was filed in the wrong court, as environmental groups seek to halt expansion.

Several Florida nonprofits, medical professionals, public health experts and families impacted by the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Everglades are calling for it to be shut down due to what they are calling inhumane conditions and environmental damage.

Florida’s top emergency official says a lawsuit to stop an immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades was filed in the wrong court