Federal officials on Friday confirmed that Florida received reimbursement of 608 million US dollars for expenses for the construction and management of the immigration center for maintaining in Florida Everglaids, exposure “Alligator Alcatraz” To the risk of being an order to close for the second time.
The US Department of Internal Security reported in an email that Florida received a full request for compensation.
Compensation reveals the state of Florida so that for the second time they are forced to relax at a remote institution from a judicial prohibition of a federal judge in August. Judge Miami agreed with environmental groups that filed a court that the site was not provided with a proper ecological review before it was transformed into the center of immigration conclusion and gave Florida two months to work.
However, the judge’s court ban was currently suspended by the appeal commission in the court in Atlanta, which stated that the state institution did not need to undergo a study required by federal impact on the environment, since Florida has not yet received federal money for the project.
“If the federal accused ultimately decides to approve this request and reimburse Florida for its expenses related to the object, they may need to first conduct EIS (an application for environmental impacts),” wrote an appeal commission of three judges last month.
The decision of the appeal group allowed the center for maintaining to remain open and put an end to efforts.
President Donald Trump made a trip to the facility in July and suggested that it could be a model For future locks throughout the country, when its administration seeks to expand the infrastructure necessary to increase deportation.
Environmental groups, which filed a court and government governments said that confirmation of compensation showed that the object built in Florida is the federal project “From the jump”.
“This is a federal project created with federal funds required by federal law to pass a full environmental review,” said Eliz Bennett, Florida and director of the Caribbean basin in the center of biological diversity. “We will do our best to stop this lawless, destructive and wasteful defeat.”
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