Gov. Ron DeSantis said hundreds of immigration detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on planes, some for federal facilities, and others out of the country.

About 100 people previously detained at the Florida center “have fully been deported,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said, without specifying where they were sent.

Deportation flights from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in southern Florida have begun, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference Friday.