This story was originally published by WGCU.
By the several hundreds on Sunday, people gathered outside the gates of an abandoned airport tarmac in a remote area off U.S. 41 protesting that Florida is proposing to be the next site of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. The state is calling it the Alligator Alcatraz.
A tribal song can be heard in the distance as a line of demonstrators grew on both sides of 41 in the heart of the Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County…