I will continue to push for legislation that prohibits the use of federal funds to construct, reimburse, or operate any detention facility in the Everglades and codifies protections for congressional oversight visits to detention facilities.

Wasserman Schultz is the lead sponsor of legislation that would prohibit the use of federal funds to construct, reimburse, or operate any detention facility in the Everglades. The No Cages in the Everglades Act would also permanently codify the appropriations provision barring any Administration from preventing Members of Congress or their staff from conducting oversight visits at detention facilities, with no exceptions for facilities operated by State or local governments or by private contractors.

The source states she is sponsoring legislation to ban federal funding for Everglades detention facilities and protect congressional oversight access.

Wasserman Schultz Discusses Unannounced Everglades Detention Center Oversight Visit | U.S. House of Representatives
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"That is part of the oversight responsibilities that I have. It is required, and they are prohibited from expending any funds that block a member's ability to get access to the facility or to get information necessary to conduct that oversight."

She affirmed that blocking congressional access to the detention facility would be improper and tied it to her oversight responsibilities, consistent with her push for protections for oversight visits.

PALM BEACH POST: Alligator Alcatraz 'inhumane' detention camp, Wasserman Schultz says | U.S. House of Representatives
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In her May 12, 2026 House statement, Wasserman Schultz said the Everglades camp’s closure was "long overdue," said she had fought it "at every turn, in Congress, in court," and added, "But this fight isn't done" and Democrats would "keep fighting for reforms."

Official congressional statement shows she continued to press the Everglades detention issue after the camp’s reported closure, but it does not show that the promised federal legislation had been enacted or that access protections were codified. This supports an ongoing, unresolved status rather than delivery.

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Wasserman Schultz Statement on the Everglades Internment Camp’s Reported Closure | U.S. House of Representatives
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