Overview

• Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has asked for remote camera surveillance and scheduled site visits after receiving reports of serious medical emergencies and deaths at Alligator Alcatraz.
• Detainees and rights groups have described water shortages, blocked toilets, mosquito swarms and limited legal access in the remote Everglades detention center.
• Florida emergency management officials state that the facility meets all health, safety and operational standards and that ICE operations continue without interruption.
• Built in eight days on the abandoned Dade-Collier jetport, the FEMA-funded center opened July 1 with capacity for up to 5,000 undocumented migrants under the expanded deportation policy.
• Environmental and tribal advocates have ongoing lawsuits over ecological impacts on Miccosukee and Seminole lands surrounding the $450 million Everglades site.