Overview

• President Trump joined Gov. Ron DeSantis and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for a July 1 tour ahead of the site receiving its first detainees.
• ICE will operate the remote Dade-Collier airstrip conversion, which can house 3,000 to 5,000 migrants under Trump’s mass deportation plan.
• Florida used an executive order to fast-track construction in eight days, leveraging FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program for partial reimbursement of the estimated $450 million annual cost.
• The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades and tribal groups have filed lawsuits under NEPA and the Endangered Species Act to block the project.
• The detention camp is part of a broader campaign targeting up to 3,000 arrests per day to expand bed capacity and accelerate deportations.