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.

Founded in the 1960s, the Everglades Jetport was slated to be the largest airport in the world and a hub for supersonic travel. Environmental concerns and the decline of the supersonic jet industry killed the jetport project;