Democrats also focused on what they said they learned at the facility: They said officials clarified repeatedly that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “calling the shots” at the detention center — an open question after the agency’s acting deputy associate director of enforcement and removal operations downplayed federal involvement.

Florida lawmakers took a state-arranged tour of the new Everglades immigration detention center on Saturday after some were blocked earlier from viewing the remote facility that officials have dubbed '' Alligator Alcatraz.