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Justice Department Responds to Environmental Groups' Lawsuit to Halt 'Alligator Alcatraz' Operations
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUL 3 – Environmental groups sued to stop a migrant detention center in the Everglades citing violations of environmental laws and procedural requirements, while officials claim minimal harm and legal compli
- On Thursday, the Trump administration told a federal judge it opposes halting the use of the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades that houses undocumented immigrants.
- This request followed a lawsuit filed last week by environmental groups claiming the state bypassed the National Environmental Policy Act by not conducting a proper environmental review before building the facility.
- Florida is financing and managing the facility itself on publicly owned land under emergency state authority, while federal entities such as the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies have neither authorized nor provided funding for the project.
- Justice Department lawyers contended that environmental groups did not demonstrate ‘irreparable harm’ nor identify a necessary ‘final federal agency action,’ while state officials have estimated the annual operating expenses of the facility at $450 million.
- The facility has begun receiving detainees, and officials indicated the state plans to seek federal reimbursement, while the lawsuit and legal debate continue over its environmental and jurisdictional legitimacy.
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Florida Detention Center Fight: Feds Sue To Block "Alligator Alcatraz" Delays
“Alligator Alcatraz” Showdown: Feds Take Legal Action Against Efforts to Halt Florida Detention Center The legal battle over Florida’s controversial temporary immigration detention center, notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” escalated today as the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) filed a robust defense in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This […] Florida Detention Center Fight: …
Miami, U.S.A., 3 Jul (EFE).- The U.S. government filed a legal action on Thursday to stop a lawsuit by two environmental groups seeking to suspend the work of the ‘Alcatraz caiman’ migrant detention center, in the Everglades Nature Reserve, Florida, to which they have already begun to be transferred abroad for deportation. The Department of Justice reported that it filed a motion with the District Court of South Florida to avoid delays in the co…
Trump contradicted as Feds tell judge Alligator Alcatraz nothing to do with them
The federal government is disavowing responsibility for Florida’s Everglades immigration center the morning after people awaiting deportation arrived.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security neither funded nor authorized the 3,000-capacity tent and trailer detention center, counsel for the departmen...
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