Brush Fires Force Evacuation of Krome Detention Center as Wildfires Burn Nearby

ICE began evacuating the Krome Detention Center in west Miami-Dade over the weekend — “out of an abundance of caution” — as two brush fires burned nearby, transferring detainees to other ICE facilities inside and outside Florida. The larger blaze had scorched more than 19,000 acres near the facility, which sits on the edge of the Everglades and is the nation’s oldest immigration detention center. Krome, built for roughly 600 people, has drawn repeated reporting over the past year on overcrowding and medical emergencies as ICE detention numbers swelled.