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Closure Timing Of FLs Alligator Alcatraz Is No Accident, Environmentalists Say
Environmental groups say the closure could come as soon as next month, before a judge regains oversight of the lawsuit.
- Environmental groups say the expected closure of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' is timed to avoid a federal judge who previously ordered it shut.
- The Florida-run facility opened last July to support the immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump; an appellate court blocked a lower court's shutdown order last month, but the case is now returning to the original district judge.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he hadn't gotten any 'official word' that federal authorities will stop sending detainees, while the state expects $608 million in federal reimbursements from FEMA already approved.
- Attorney Paul Schwiep said defendants are 'waving the white flag' as the lawsuit returns to District Judge Kathleen Williams, who previously ordered the facility to wind down operations within two months.
- U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida, called the project a 'monument to cruelty' and environmental abuse on Tuesday, as Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity continue challenging its existence.
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Expected closure of Everglades detention center is no accident given timing, environmentalists say
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups say that the timing of the expected closure of an immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades, likely in the next
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The closure of a controversial immigration detention center in Florida is imminent now that the case has passed to the jurisdiction of a judge who previously ordered its closure, environmental groups say.
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