Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Administration officials say bold tactics are needed to repel what they call an "invasion" of immigrants in the country illegally. But policing experts say the aggressive approach is provoking unnecessarily dangerous encounters.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the new Florida detention centre dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", where around 1,000 migrants are expected to be held as soon as next month, surveying the next step in his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Alligator Alcatraz” becomes the stark new face of Trump and DeSantis’ immigration crackdown, drawing fire over safety, cost, and overcrowding.