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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.

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."

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.

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.

The vacant Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida is slated to become the state's newest immigration detention center.

Florida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more than a month after 'Alligator Alcatraz' opened. The facility built in the Florida Everglades has faced criticism for allegedly restricting detainees' access to attorneys and immigration courts.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is apparently preparing to build a second immigration detention center, awarding at least one contract for what's labeled in state records as the "North Detention Facility."

Calls to 911 from the Broward Transitional Center, an ICE detention facility in Pompano Beach, are on pace to double from last year, according to an analysis of emergency-call data by The Tributary, a trend that some lawmakers, immigration-rights groups and attorneys attribute to a system that is overwhelmed and operating with little oversight.

The Trump administration Thursday argued a federal judge should deny a request to block operation of a detention center in the Everglades for undocumented immigrants, saying Florida has been responsible for the project dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said on social media that "hundreds" of immigration detainees were set to arrive at the center Wednesday night.