More than 20,000 pages of records released through federal litigation indicate that migrant children detained at the now-closed Homestead detention center in South Florida were housed near multiple sources of toxic contamination, including arsenic and lead, without any documented environmental assessment before the facility opened. According to the records, the detention center operated without evaluating or remediating environmental hazards despite being located near 16 contamination sources. The newly released records come as scrutiny of immigration detention conditions in Florida continues. Separately, WLRN reported last week that detainees at Miami's Federal Detention Center have continued to allege inadequate medical care, extreme heat, malfunctioning toilets, flooding and poor food quality. The accounts, shared through recorded phone calls with family members, echo findings in a 2025 Human Rights Watch report that described conditions at several South Florida immigration detention facilities as "abusive, degrading, and in some cases life-threatening."