Overview

• The Everglades facility was erected in eight days on a former airstrip and can hold roughly 3,000 migrants pending deportation.
• Detainees report confinement in 32-person cages with overflowing chemical toilets, raw sewage on the ground and pervasive insect infestations.
• Two Italian nationals detained there say they lack legal counsel and have spurred requests from diplomats for their return.
• ICE and state officials dispute claims of abuse, blaming reported issues on the camp’s rapid construction and isolated location.
• The center, costing about $450 million a year to operate, embodies President Trump and Governor DeSantis’s crackdown on undocumented immigration.