The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

Democratic lawmakers are seeking more information from the Department of Homeland Security about the Trump administration's partnership with Florida to create a migrant detention facility in the Everglades,

In a letter sent late Tuesday to the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FEMA, the lawmakers expressed concern that the Trump administration's decision to use what lawmakers called a "novel state-run immigration detention model" could violate federal law and make the federal government less accountable for the conditions at immigrant detention centers.

Although a federal judge in Miami ordered their case be moved to another Florida district, the ACLU and other plaintiffs suing the controversial migrant detention facility over access to attorneys insist they'll win the litigation - and that they have already been handed "an important victory.

A federal judge is considering whether the construction of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," violates environmental laws.

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center