Overview

• The facility holds about 3,000 migrants in tent and trailer units with room to expand to 5,000 under Governor DeSantis’s emergency powers.
• Florida is seeking reimbursement from FEMA even though the U.S. Justice Department says it did not authorize or fund the project.
• Environmental and tribal lawsuits challenge the camp’s impact on endangered Everglades ecosystems and the seizure of sacred indigenous land.
• Lawmaker tours have drawn sharply different reactions, as Democrats criticize overcrowding and unsanitary conditions and Republicans commend federal compliance.
• One-third of detainees have criminal convictions, while critics highlight that most are non-violent migrants held under the administration’s mass-arrest deportation policy.