Democrats, Alligator Alcatraz
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Trump scored a partial win as a judge tossed one claim, but Florida legal battles over detainee rights continue.
Other ICE detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz have been under consideration for other locations, including in North Florida, Indiana and Nebraska.
A federal judge in Miami issued a split decision in a lawsuit over the legal rights of detainees at the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dismissing part of the suit and also moving the case to a different jurisdiction.
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Judge appears skeptical about lawsuit challenging treatment of detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz'
A judge appeared skeptical Monday about a lawsuit challenging the temporary detention facility in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."
As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people — most of them reverends, rabbis, pastors and people of assorted faiths — chanted in unison, “Shut it down” and “This is a preserve, not a prison” as cars and trucks zoomed behind them on Tamiami Trail.
A Florida federal judge heard arguments about the conditions at "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Everglades but gave no ruling or injunction.
A Clarke County man has caught a massive alligator near Coffeeville in Clarke County. Madison Anderson said, “He was laid up on the bank and we saw his whole body. We knew he was big.” Before the big hunt,