Florida raced to open the center, eager to help President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown by providing more detention capacity.

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida asked Monday to join a lawsuit to stop the further construction and operation of the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades. Tribal leaders had already denounced the detention center,