Overview
- New filings include emails showing reimbursement discussions in June and FEMA’s confirmation in early August that it had received Florida’s grant application.
- FEMA notified Florida in late September that it approved $608 million for the Everglades detention facility, but federal filings say no reimbursement has been paid.
- Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe argue the records were withheld from the district court and support treating the project as federal under NEPA.
- The facility remains open under an appellate stay that relied on arguments that no federal reimbursement had been sought when a Miami judge ordered a wind-down in August.
- Plaintiffs ask the appellate panel to consider the new evidence as parallel lawsuits challenge the state’s authority to operate the first state-run immigration detention center, which took its first detainees in July.