Florida still owes $603 million on immigration enforcement contracts

Florida still owes at least $603 million to 27 companies that helped build the state’s migrant lockups and carry out an undocumented immigration crackdown, according to dozens of contracts reviewed by the Phoenix.

This means the majority of immigration contracts remain unpaid — even after the DeSantis administration’s emergency managers spent half a billion dollars on vendors and other immigration costs. The outstanding agreements — all active at the time of publication — were signed over an 11-month period beginning last June.

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