Overview

• DHS says it is complying with the court order and moving detainees, and a Florida emergency chief wrote the site would likely be at zero within days.
• The preliminary injunction blocks new transfers and requires fencing, lighting and generators to be removed once the population declines.
• Florida and federal officials have appealed and sought a pause, arguing federal environmental law shouldn’t bind the state, but the wind-down remains in effect.
• State filings warn of major losses, with roughly $218 million at risk plus an immediate $15–$20 million shutdown cost and similar expense to reinstall if reopened, after more than $245 million in contracts were signed.
• Separate civil-rights cases alleging denied access to counsel and unsanitary conditions continue even as the Everglades facility is emptied.