Overview

• FEMA approved a $608.4 million Detention Support Grant for Florida’s Everglades detention complex, with funds contingent on a line‑item expense review before any reimbursement is released.
• Justice Department attorneys told a federal court that detainees include people in varied stages of immigration processing, likely including some who were never in removal proceedings, contradicting the governor’s public statements.
• An appeals panel has paused a Miami judge’s preliminary injunction that ordered the site to wind down for lack of environmental review, allowing operations to continue as litigation proceeds.
• Florida is rotating sheriff’s deputies for weeklong perimeter security deployments, with local agencies stating they will be reimbursed and that personnel will remain outside the wire.
• ICE separately announced $38 million for equipment and transportation, and state records show Florida has spent at least $245 million on the facility that opened July 1 with capacity for about 3,000 people.