Overview

• An Eleventh Circuit panel voted 2–1 to stay Judge Kathleen Williams’s order that halted new intakes and required a 60‑day wind‑down of the Everglades facility.
• The majority reasoned the installation is built, run and funded by Florida, so the federal National Environmental Policy Act likely does not apply to it.
• Florida opened a second site, the Baker County ‘Deportation Depot,’ this week with capacity reported up to roughly 2,000 people and began receiving transfers on Friday.
• Governor Ron DeSantis touted plans for a third Panhandle facility, while DHS said 51 migrants have been moved to Louisiana’s Angola prison as bed space there is expanded to 200–400.
• Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe press their closure case, the ACLU pursues rights complaints over conditions and access to counsel, and weekly protest vigils continue outside the Everglades site.