Alligator Alcatraz, immigration detention
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Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 21, saying the Trump administration should pack up Alligator Alcatraz and leave the Everglades.
The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.
The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.
A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
"Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases," said one immigration attorney
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