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Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “We now know that the federal and state government had records confirming that they closely partnered on this facility from the beginning but failed to disclose them to the district court. They cannot continue to evade responsibility for what they’ve done to the Everglades.”

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 27 and Eleventh Circuit Rule 27-1, Appellees Friends of the Everglades and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully renew their motion for leave to file a single consolidated Answer Brief, in response to separate Opening Briefs filed by Appellants Florida Department of Emergency Management and Appellants Federal Agencies.

Pursuant to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 10(e)(2) and 27, Plaintiff-Appellees Friends of the Everglades, Inc., and Center for Biological Diversity hereby respectfully move to supplement the record on appeal with evidence of material facts that were known to, but undisclosed by, Appellants, prior to the preliminary injunction that is the subject of this appeal.

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The writing has been on the wall from the start. It is an avenue that the agencies right now are trying to dance around in a way to avoid liability for environment, for complying with environmental law.”

Los contribuyentes tienen el derecho legal de ver las inversiones que se hacen con su dinero

Taxpayers have a legal right to see where their money is spent

Friends of the Everglades filed suit against the Florida Division of Emergency Management because the agency is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a mass immigration detention center in the Everglades without disclosing financial arrangements with the federal government. The failure to disclose those records violates Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Act, which requires agencies to make official records available to the public.

Debido a que se están utilizando fondos de FEMA para el centro de detención de Everglades, la ley exige que se realice una evaluación ambiental federal para proteger la fauna silvestre en peligro de extinción

Los grupos conservacionistas continuarán luchando contra la apelación de los demandados federales y estatales contra la orden judicial preliminar en la corte de apelaciones

Florida and the Trump administration have been ramming through the construction of an immigration detention facility within the Florida Everglades, the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere.

Orden cautelar por jueza federal, con respecto al centro ubicado en los Everglades

Decision means the facility must wind down operations in an orderly fashion within 60 days

En un fallo de 82 páginas, la jueza Kathleen Williams citó amplias pruebas que demuestran el daño a los Everglades causado por la operación de la instalación, construida sin la revisión ambiental exigida por la ley

Florida y la administración Trump han estado impulsando la construcción de un centro de detención para inmigrantes dentro de los Everglades en ese estado.

La pausa durará 14 días mientras continúa una audiencia judicial sobre la moción de grupos conservacionistas para una orden judicial preliminar.

The pause will last 14 days while court hearing continues on conservation groups’ motion for a preliminary injunction.

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.