MIAMI — The number of people being held at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades has decreased sharply and may soon be down to zero, despite the state’s recent insistence that the 2,000 beds at the facility were desperately needed as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants lacking legal status.

Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, wrote in an email Friday that the detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, was “probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

The email, obtained by The New York Times, was sent to the office of a South Florida rabbi in response to interfaith leaders who had asked whether they could minister to detainees inside the remote center.

The state has repeatedly dec

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