Overview

• Governor Ron DeSantis used emergency powers to convert the remote Dade-Collier airstrip into a 5,000-bed migrant detention center slated to open in early July.
• The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA will cover the facility’s estimated $450 million annual cost, reimbursing Florida at about $245 per detainee each day.
• The site will detain immigrants held under Florida’s 287(g) program as well as those in ICE custody, state officials say.
• Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a June 25 federal lawsuit claiming violations of the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act.
• Hundreds of environmental advocates, immigration activists and Miccosukee and Seminole tribal leaders have protested the project without halting construction progress.