Overview

• On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams refused to stay her injunction, keeping in place a 60-day shutdown that bars new transfers and orders removal of fencing, lighting and generators.
• DHS says it is complying and relocating detainees, and Florida’s emergency management chief wrote the site would likely be “down to 0 individuals within a few days.”
• The court found likely National Environmental Policy Act violations after the facility was erected at the Dade-Collier airfield without any environmental review.
• Florida has signed more than $245 million in contracts for the project, and state filings warn taxpayers could lose about $218 million if it stays closed, with additional immediate mothballing costs.
• Florida and the federal government are appealing as separate civil-rights suits over detainee access and state authority advance, and the state prepares a second site dubbed “Deportation Depot.”