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Alligator Alcatraz revival: appeals court pauses order shuttering detention camp  Miami Herald Operations at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ back on after appeals court halts judge’s order  Fox News Appeals court temporarily blocks judge’s order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  CNN Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email shows  AP News Appeals court allows Alligator Alcatraz to continue immigrant detention center operations  ABC …

Florida shouldn’t have been ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz, appeals court finds  Axios Appeals court temporarily blocks judge’s order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  CNN Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email shows  AP News Appeals court allows Alligator Alcatraz to continue immigrant detention center operations  ABC News Alligator Alcatraz to Remain Open as DHS Appeals Shutdown (1)  Bloomberg Law …

Federal appeals court blocks judge’s order shutting down Alligator Alcatraz  Politico Appeals court temporarily blocks judge’s order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  CNN Florida may lose $218M on empty ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as judge orders shutdown  AP News Appeals court allows Alligator Alcatraz to continue immigrant detention center operations  ABC News Trump Admin Scores Major Win in Florida  Newsweek Source link

Appeals Court Says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Can Stay Open  The New York Times Appeals court blocks judge’s order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  CNN Appeals court allows ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to continue operations  ABC13 Houston First hearing held on detainees’ legal rights at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after judge orders wind down  AP News Appeals court panel stops order to wind down operations at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in …

Washington — A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a lower court ruling that required Florida and the Trump administration to dismantle parts of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial immigration detention site in the Everglades. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will effectively allow Alligator Alcatraz to stay open …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A federal appeals court has blocked a judge’s order requiring Florida and the federal government to shut down and dismantle a controversial immigration detention facility built in the Everglades, widely referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz.” On Thursday, the Eleventh US Circuit Court of Appeals granted requests from the State of Florida and the US Department of …

The operator of immigration detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz” has denied reports of an uprising at the site. Stephanie Hartman, spokesperson for Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), which runs the facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told the Guardian: “These reports are manufactured. There is no uprising happening at Alligator Alcatraz. Detainees are given clean, safe living conditions and …

Florida taxpayers could lose nearly all of the $218 million the state poured into its controversial Everglades detention center after a federal judge upheld her order shutting it down. The facility, which has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” was quickly converted from a remote training airport into a sprawling detention complex. State officials opened it at the beginning of July as …

A man whose loved ones thought he had died at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz after alleged delays in appropriate medical care turned out to be alive and was then secretly moved to the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss, Texas – and has since been moved again. Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez is awaiting deportation in what his lawyers said he described …

Guards at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami’s Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge’s order to …