Alligator Alcatraz

Sunday's protest, now in its eighth week, comes amid new reports of alleged medical neglect, violations of attorney-client privilege, and a large number of detainees who have all but disappeared from official federal records.

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America's immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration's hard-line policies. The religious leaders condemned Trump's immigration crackdown, saying its tearing apart families, inciting fear and upending American church life.

The filings say detainees are often transferred just before scheduled lawyer visits, denying them legal representation. The new court papers were filed a week after a federal appellate court allowed the facility to continue operations by staying a lower court's injunction ordering the center to wind down.

Last week his administration won an interim victory when an appellate court panel halted a lower court's order to shut down the facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz." Now Florida may be forced to choose between forgoing federal reimbursement for the detention center or accepting the money and facing an environmental review that would risk shutting down the facility.

“This ruling is a setback for human rights," said Amy Fischer, Amnesty International USA’s Director for Refugee and Migrant Rights, in a statement issue Friday morning.

A three-judge panel in Atlanta has put on hold a lower court judge's order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Attorneys are fighting for the legal rights of detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. This is the first meeting since a federal judge in a separate environmental lawsuit ordered operations at the facility to wind down.

Florida plans to resume taking in immigrants at a controversial detention center in the Everglades if an appeals court pauses a judge's order that required winding down operations at the facility, a new court filing says.

Federal officials are complying with a judge's order and have stopped sending immigrants to a detention center in the Everglades, less than two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration launched the facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in support of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.

It started in Florida with “Alligator Alcatraz.” Then came news of the “Speedway Slammer” in Indiana. Most recently the Trump administration announced plans for yet another immigration detention center, this one in Nebraska, to be called the “Cornhusker Clink.”

A federal judge has ordered operations to wind down at the center due to environmental concerns. The facility, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," has been emptying of detainees. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Wednesday denied requests to pause her order, despite claims it would disrupt immigration enforcement.

A federal judge in Miami has refused to pause her order to wind down the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.