Deportation flights are now underway from Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” facility as Gov. Ron DeSantis touts it as a national model amid transparency concerns.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the Department of Homeland Security has started flying migrants out of the “Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says deportation flights from the "Alligator Alcatraz" are underway. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more details.

Deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as “Alligator Alcatraz” began in the past few days, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Manatee County is next to receive state-level D.O.G.E. budget audits.

DeSantis announced that the Department of Homeland Security has begun to conduct flights out of Alligator Alcatraz, bringing the immigrants back to their home country. He said that hundreds of detainees have been removed from the facility already.

Long before Alligator Alcatraz was stood up, DeSantis offered his own takes on pricy grouper sandwiches, his children’s predilection for waffles, family disputes over chicken fingers and a once-unfulfilled yearning for a previously trendy Popeye’s chicken sandwich.

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The flights, operated by the Department of Homeland Security, have reportedly transferred about 100 detainees to other countries.

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