Federal officials confirmed on Friday that the state of Florida had listed $ 608 million on the costs of building and operating the immigration detention center in Florida Evergels, and exposed “Crocodile Crocodile” At the risk of closing order for the second time.
The US Department of Internal Security said in an email that Florida had a full payment request.
The payment is presented to Florida to force him to relax in operations in the remote facility for the second time due to a federal judicial order in August. Miami judge agreed with the environmental groups that filed a lawsuit that the site was not granted an appropriate environmental review before it was transferred to a migration center and gave Florida for two months to end the operations.
However, the judge’s order was currently suspended by a court of appeal court committee in Atlanta, which said that the state -run facility does not need to undergo an environmental study required federally because Florida has not yet received federal funds for the project.
“If the federal defendants ultimately decide to approve this request and pay Florida because of its installations expenditures, they may first need to conduct EIS (environmental impact statement),” the three cases appealing committee wrote last month.
The decision of the Appeals Committee allowed the detention center to stay open and put an end to the wind efforts.
President Donald Trump toured the facility in July and He suggested that it could be a model For future insurance operations throughout the country, with its administration pushing the infrastructure necessary to increase the deportation.
The environmental groups that filed a lawsuit against federal governments said, and the confirmation of payment showed that the facility built in Florida was a federal project “of the jump.”
“This is a federal project that is built with federal funds required by federal law for full environmental review,” Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean Director at the Biodiversity Center said in a statement. “We will do everything we can to stop this illegal, destructive and waste disaster.”
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