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The immigrant detention center in the Everglades was shut down months ago. But environmental groups are still pursuing legal action.

The formal Request for Information paints a picture of what the state is planning: multiple contractor-run detention centers throughout Florida, each holding up to 50 adults.

Florida follows a national trend of an increase in deportation orders, which hit an all-time high of 79,000 in June.

A bombshell article from the New York Times reports Florida and the Trump administration are in early talks to close the detention center.

On "The Florida Roundup," Eve Samples with Friends of the Everglades discussed the organization's lawsuit against the state for the Alligator Alcatraz center and more.

As budget talks start in Tallahassee, an early rift between the chambers involves the size of the emergency fund and a House bill that limits how it can be used.

Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.

The immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades was embroiled in controversy before it opened last summer, and environmentalists are fighting to shut it down.

A Leon County circuit judge wrote that the laws allow access to facilities such as state prisons and county jails — but not to the immigrant-detention center run by the state.

Tribe officials say they are moving forward with their legal battle against the immigrant detention facility in the Everglades.