Overview

• The Everglades camp on a repurposed Dade-Collier airstrip began receiving migrants Wednesday under its 3,000-bed capacity.
• Constructed in eight days with tents, trailers and more than 200 security cameras, the site is ringed by over 28,000 feet of barbed wire and staffed by 400 personnel.
• President Trump endorsed deploying Florida National Guard members as ad hoc immigration judges to accelerate migrant removals and suggested deporting dangerous U.S. citizens.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said detainees can opt to self-deport by boarding chartered flights home directly from the remote facility.
• Conservationists and Native American tribes have filed lawsuits challenging the project’s emergency approval and its impact on protected Everglades wetlands and species.