Overview

• The injunction bars any new detainees and requires removal within 60 days of fencing, lighting, generators, and waste and sewage systems.
• Florida filed an immediate appeal, with roughly 750 people still housed at the site as operations are wound down.
• Judge Kathleen Williams found the rush-built facility caused significant ecological damage and that officials failed to justify the Everglades location.
• Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Miccosukee Tribe sued, warning of threats to protected species and long-term restoration efforts.
• Constructed in about eight days to hold up to 3,000 people, the camp has drawn reports of unsanitary conditions and inadequate medical care.