‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it | US immigration
A state official said Florida’s migratory prison, known as “Crocodile Alcatraz, would probably be empty of the prisoners and showed that a judge should be able to close the facility last week.
The administration of the Republican Governor Ron Desantis appealed the order that the tent detention camp in Florida Everglades, who was criticized for the harsh conditions of the Federal Court Judge Kathleen Williams, should be dismantled within 60 days.
However, in an e -mail reported on Wednesday By Associated PressFlorida Emergency Management Department Executive Director Kevin Guthrie, who runs the prison on behalf of the Federal Government, confirmed that it would be closed.
“Probably we will fall for 0 people in a few days, Gut Guthrie wrote to a Miami Beach Rabbi Mario Rojzman, who helped to organize priesthood services.
Rojzman representatives confirmed the originality of the note to the news agency. Guthrie’s office did not respond immediately to comments.
Miami Herald reported that hundreds of prisoners had moved to other immigration facilities in the state before Williams’ decision from “Crocodile Alcatraz ..
On Monday, protesters who survive almost a permanent presence at the gates of the prison Bus convoys It goes out.
Maxwell Frost, a Democratic Congress member of a Florida, said that only 300 to 350 prisoners remained during a round last week.
“Crocodile Alcatraz” was launched by Donald Trump as a holding camp for up to 3,000 immigrants up to 3,000. He said that the prison was leaving for the “most vicious people on the planet”.
He drew criticism waves, as it was opened in early July after it was hurriedly used in late June to the west of Miami. A few cases wanted to be closed and there are allegations that hundreds of people who were detained are not criminal records or not actively against them.
Williams’ decision was an important victory for the Miccosukee tribe of the Hintans who claimed to have caused permanent and irreparable damage in the ecologically fragile wetland and wildlife of the camp.
Another case filed by groups, including the American Union of Civil Freedoms (Aclu), claimed that the detainees had been abused by prison staff and that they had rejected human and constitutional rights because they rejected their access to lawyers and as necessary.
The plaintiffs said that the Everglades facility is not necessary, especially in Florida, in the north of the state, desantis, which is called a “deportation warehouse ,, plans to open a second immigrant detention facility.
Williams did not request lawyers to continue the closing order of the state on Wednesday. In the original 82 -page decision, he said that he expects the population of the facility to fall within 60 days by transferring the prisoners to other facilities and that fencing, lighting and generators should be removed after this took place.
He wrote that the state and federal defendants could not bring anyone other than the detainees in the facility.
Federal and state officials in the cases of the Environmental Groups and Miccosukeee tribe argued that more construction and operation should be stopped until they comply with the Federal Environmental Laws. The cases claimed that the facility reversed billions of dollars spent on environmental restoration for decades.
The state officials signed more than 245 million dollars of contracts for the construction and operation of the facility at a training airport, which is slightly used in the middle of the rugged and remote Everglades. The center officially opened on July 1.
In their case, civil rights lawyers described “serious problems ılan, which were“ not heard in the immigration system before ”. The detainees were held for weeks without any accusation, disappeared from the online detained position protected by the Federal Migration and Customs Protection Agency (ICE), and no one did the first custody or bond determinations at the facility.
The prisoners also described the worms in food, non -wash toilets, fecal waste, mosquitoes and other insects, and the temperature is defined as a defective air conditioner that changes the temperature between freezing and excessive heat.
