Overview

• Florida officials selected the unused Baker Correctional Institute near Jacksonville to detain migrants lacking valid residence permits ahead of their deportation.
• A federal injunction paused further expansion at the Everglades Dade-Collier Airfield facility while Judge Kathleen Williams reviews environmental compliance.
• The original Everglades camp remains open under ICE operations with deportation flights already underway and much of its funding supplied by FEMA.
• Conservation groups and the Miccosukee Tribe sued under environmental and tribal-rights statutes, alleging construction violated protections for the Everglades ecosystem.
• Detainee advocates report overcrowding, sanitation failures and hunger strikes at the swamp camp, allegations that DHS and ICE have disputed.