US EditionJudge considers whether Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center violates environmental law
The judge’s order pauses new construction amid lawsuits claiming the detention center threatens sensitive wetlands and tribal lands without required environmental impact studies.
- On August 6 in Miami, U.S. District Court will hold a hearing to consider a lawsuit challenging Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center located in the Everglades.
- The lawsuit, initiated by Friends of the Everglades, alleges that state and federal officials failed to properly assess the environmental consequences in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, enacted 55 years ago.
- Conservation advocates along with the Miccosukee Tribe are requesting a preliminary injunction to pause both the operation and continued construction of the state-established detention center located near ecologically sensitive wetlands.
- Opponents warn the project threatens protected plants and reverses billions in restoration, while Florida officials argue the site at an airstrip with a 10,500-foot runway is ideal for federal immigration enforcement.
- The hearing's outcome may determine whether construction continues amid jurisdiction disputes and claims that federal agencies improperly authorized the project without proper environmental review.
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For two weeks the expansion works of “Alligator Alcatraz” will be stopped
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction work at the controversial immigration detention center in the midst of Florida’s Everglades baptized Alligator Alcatraz. The judge’s order is in response to a lawsuit filed by environmentalist groups and one of the native tribes of the area, in which they claim that the facility violates environmental laws. Her ruling is temporary, and the prison, located west of Miami, will be…
A federal judge temporarily suspended the construction of Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant center in the Florida swamps. It is reported by the Bloomberg agency citing the Associated Press, according to which the...
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