Overview

• Construction crews have deployed heavy-duty tents, trailers and sanitation systems at the Dade-Collier airstrip under Governor DeSantis’s emergency powers.
• Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit in Miami federal court to compel a full environmental review under NEPA and the Endangered Species Act.
• Hundreds of protesters, including Miccosukee and Seminole tribal members, held sage ceremonies and highway vigils this weekend to denounce the use of sacred wetlands.
• Florida plans to open the facility with 5,000 detention beds by early July at a cost of about $450 million annually, with expenses covered by the state and reimbursed by FEMA.
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has endorsed the plan and highlighted FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program as a source of rapid funding to support the administration’s deportation campaign.