Florida has received adequate reimbursement of $ 608 million for the construction and operation of its controversial immigration detention center in Everglades, confirming federal officials on Friday. However, this payment now leaves the facility, called ‘Elegator Alkatraz’, which is unsafe for another closed order.
The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the state was awarded its full reimbursement request through email. Nevertheless, this financial confirmation matches with the prohibition of a federal judge released in August, which may once again force Florida to prevent operations on the remote site.
Miami’s judge biased with environmental groups, who successfully argued that the site was a proper environmental review before conversion into a detention center. As a result, Florida was given a period of two months to reduce its operation.
However, the prohibition of the judge was kept for time by an appellate court panel Atlanta Said that the state -run facility does not need to undergo a federally essential environmental impact study as Florida had not yet received federal funds for the project.
“If the federal defendants eventually decide to approve that request and reimburse Florida for their expenses related to convenience, they may need to conduct an operation first. EIS (Environmental impact statement), “Wrote last month by a panel of three-judges appellate court.
The Appellate panel decision allowed the Detention Center to remain open and stop air-down efforts.
chairman Donald Trump In July, he visited the convenience and suggested that it could be a model for future lockups as their administration pushes to expand the infrastructure required to increase exile.
The environmental groups prosecuting the federal and state governments said that the confirmation of reimbursement revealed that the florida-made facility was a federal project “from jump.”
“This is a federal project being made with federal funds that is required to go through a full environmental review by federal law,” the director of Elis Bennett, Florida and Caribbean said in a statement in the biological diversity. “We will do everything we can do to prevent this legitimate, destructive and useless defeat.”
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