Overview

• U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams denied a stay of her preliminary injunction, keeping in place a 60-day wind-down that bars new transfers and requires removal of fencing, lighting and generators at the Everglades site.
• DHS said it is complying with the order and relocating people to other facilities, while Florida emergency chief Kevin Guthrie wrote the population would drop to zero within days.
• The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, finding no required federal environmental review was conducted for the sensitive wetlands location.
• State filings say Florida risks losing about $218 million invested to convert the airstrip, with more than $245 million in contracts signed and immediate shutdown and potential reinstallation costs estimated at $15–$20 million each.
• Appeals by Florida and the federal government are pending, civil-rights lawsuits over conditions and legal access continue, and the state is advancing a separate north Florida facility dubbed “Deportation Depot.”