Several legislators were appalled at what they saw. Others, like State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, a Republican from Florida, countered that to him it was a well-run, safe facility where the living quarters were clean and the air conditioning worked well.

Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.