Overview
- Florida’s Division of Emergency Management published a 33-page draft hurricane continuity plan this week that omits critical details on alternate evacuation sites and vendor responsibilities.
- Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other lawmakers have pressed the DeSantis administration for unredacted documents to verify the facility’s storm readiness.
- Deportation flights from the remote tented camp began July 21 and have continued under a state-federal 287(g) agreement that delegates immigration enforcement authority.
- Federal courts are weighing venue challenges by environmental groups and considering a revised class-action suit alleging hundreds of detainees lack access to counsel and immigration hearings.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has formally demanded the immediate repatriation of at least 30 Mexican nationals held at the Everglades facility.