Ron DeSantis, the two Republican former rivals appeared side by side on Tuesday for the opening of a new migrant detention center in the Everglades. Trump and DeSantis toured the compound — nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” — built on a remote airstrip surrounded by swamp and predators.

On June 20, nearly three weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, Florida disaster-management officials assembled a group of emergency relief contractors in Tallahassee and asked them to do something they had never done before.

Since Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced plans to build an immigration detention center in the middle of the Everglades, he has repeatedly said it would be temporary. But during a press event Tuesday to mark the facility's opening, President Trump suggested that "Alligator Alcatraz" could be around "for a long time."