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.

Deportation flights have started at the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades more than three weeks after the first detainees arrived, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. The federal government has deported 100 people held at the notorious site in an old airstrip and flown out hundreds more to other hubs,