Overview

• An 82-page preliminary injunction stops further construction and prohibits transferring any additional detainees to the Everglades site.
• Within 60 days, officials must remove temporary fencing, industrial lighting, generators, and sewage and waste infrastructure, with only safety or risk-mitigation repairs allowed.
• Judge Kathleen Williams found violations of the National Environmental Policy Act and irreparable harm to the Everglades, citing runoff risks, intense light pollution, and a 2,000-acre loss of Florida panther habitat.
• The order requires removing barriers to restore Miccosukee Tribe access to areas used before the camp’s erection and deems the project a joint state-federal undertaking subject to federal environmental law.
• Florida filed an immediate notice of appeal as detainees are transferred out, and a separate access-to-counsel case was partly dismissed or moved to another court, even as other states pursue similar detention expansions.