Operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' back on after appeals court halts judge's order
On Thursday, a Federal Court of Appeal stopped an end order of a sub -court judge in the “Crocodile Alcatraz” immigration detention center built in Florida Everglades.
The panel voted 2-1 to protect the order of the judge waiting for a appeal of the appeal and allowed the facility to continue to hold immigrant prisoners for the time being.
Last month, US regional judge Kathleen Williams decided to further expand Florida’s detention center and decrease the operations until the end of October. The judge also ordered the state to transfer the detainees to other facilities and to remove equipment and fencing.
The decisions came after Everglades’ friends, the Biological Diversity Center and the Miccosukeee tribe, the state and the federal officials, not to follow the federal laws that require an environmental examination for the detention center.
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“This is a heartbreaking blow to America’s Everglades and every living thing there, but even the case does not end,” he said. He said.
In June, Gov. Ron desantis’ The administration quickly moved quickly to build a uniform training airport in the middle of Everglades to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to detention and deport immigrants. Desantis said that the facility aims to deterd the escape plans of the location.
The Trump Facility toured in July and claimed that it could be used as a model for future facilities to support the mass deportation plan.
Reacting to the decision on Thursday, Desantis said that the facility claimed that the shutter button was wrong soon.
“We said we’d fight with it. We said that the mission will continue. So Crocodile Alcatraz is actually open to work, as we always say.” He said.
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The Ministry of Internal Security described the decision as “a gain for the American people, the superiority of law and common sense”.
“This case was never about the environmental effects of transforming an advanced airport into an detention facility,” DHS said in a statement. He said. He continued: “Always open border activists and judges, law enforcement officers who try to prevent dangerous criminal foreigners from our communities, stop.”
Florida officials said that if a request for accommodation is given in the court newspapers this week, he would continue to accept the prisoners at the facility.
Although the plaintiffs say that the case is far from ending, he claims that the facility will be closed at the end.
Everglades of the Everglades’ Manager Eve SAMPLES, EV SAMPLES, EV SAMPLES, Eve SAMPLES, “Meanwhile, if he chooses to take back the operations in the detention center, they will only throw good money after this badly thought facility will be closed.” He said.
The plaintiffs argued that Florida had funded the project itself and the federal government did not directly contribute, despite the federal environmental investigation requirements, despite the fact that the “Crocodile Alcatraz” contained federal prisoners.
In the decision of Thursday, the Court of Appeal accepted these allegations to a great extent.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
