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Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump have dismissed worries for the ecosystem. During a June 27 Boca Raton press conference, DeSantis told NBC 6 South Florida politics reporter Hatzel Vela that the facility has "zero impact" on the Everglades.
Groups have filed lawsuits against construction in the highly sensitive environment of the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Fundraising for Florida Republicans has spiked as the Everglades-based detention facility for undocumented immigrants — which faces a lawsuit — has taken shape.
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Green Matters on MSNWhat Are the Details of Governor DeSantis’s Florida Everglades Restoration Project?Floridians, rejoice: there are updates to be shared as Governor DeSantis plans to restore parts of the Florida Everglades.
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Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway.
The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently seized from Miami-Dade County using emergency powers.
"The devil is in the details, and we have zero details," said Eve Samples, executive director of the Stuart-based Friends of the Everglades.
Governor Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump toured 'Alligator Alcatraz' on Tuesday.The detention center in the Florida Everglades boo