The Homeland Security Department has described those who exit a controversial, state-driven immigration prevention center among Florida Everglads as “Elegator Alkatraz”, a federal judge ruled that parts of the facility should be destroyed.
The prisoners are being transferred to other immigration detention centers, DHS said in a statement on Wednesday, “A” activist judge “convicted the court order that it” asked the President to remove another effort to stop the President from completing the mandate of the American people. “
DHS said in a statement to CBS News, “DHS is following the order and taking the prisoners for other facilities. We will continue to fight teeth-and-nails to remove the worst from American roads.
Before Wednesday, associated Press A top emergency officer from Florida told the South Florida Rabbi last week that crocodile Alkatraz would probably be “empty within a few days”.
The state government of Florida is part of one, the facility of running on a large scale airstrip. Wide shock The Trump administration was designed by the Trump administration to assist in its growing public exile efforts to increase the number of immigration prohibition beds by participating with the Republican -led states.
Republican authorities in Indiana and Nebraska have also offered to convert state jails into immigration prevention centers, and the Trump administration is monitoring similar facilities in other states.
The administration has put “crocodile Alkatraz” as a cost -effective way to keep migrants living in the US illegally and suggested The treacherous areas around the site could serve as a preventive. But Are advocates The facility described in inhuman conditions, lack of access to water, rare and unequal access to uneven food and lawyers – allegations said that federal and state officials have refused.
Last week, US District Judge Kathleen Williams Ordered All the new construction stopped for all new construction in “Elegator Alkatraz” and stopped the transfer of new detainees in convenience. He also directed the state officials to take out all the fences, light fixtures, generators and some other equipment on the site within 60 days, siding with environmental workers who said that the facility said that the convenience skirts federal environmental laws.
The ruling did not need to close the facility immediately.
State Government of Florida Appeal quickly Williams decided last week. Late Wednesday evening, Williams rejected Rejecting the request by Trump administration and Florida, to prevent its ruling pending appeal.
In his new order on Wednesday, Williams said that federal and state officials failed to present “new evidence”, which show the detainees in “crocodiles Alkatraz”, especially dangerous or that a stagnation in operation in convenience would thwart immigration enforcement efforts.
“Elegator Alkatraz” is also the subject of two other cases. One of them alleged that the prisoners were unable to meet their lawyers confidentially. Earlier this month a federal judge Dismissed A part of the case alleged that the government did not clarify the prisoners from filing the legal challenges that the immigration court had taken care of the convenience, but left the rest of the suit – although it moved the case from Miami to Orlando.
Another lawsuit Last week filed It is alleged that the State Florida does not have the legal right to operate the immigration detention center.
