US EditionThe Miccosukee Tribe of Florida Wants to Join a Federal Lawsuit Against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, JUL 15 – U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ruled ICE must stop racial profiling and provide detainees access to legal counsel at the Everglades detention center.
- The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida seeks to join a federal lawsuit to halt construction of the 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center in the Everglades.
- The lawsuit arises because the facility was rapidly built on the Tribe’s ancestral lands without their consent, violating treaty and sovereign rights.
- The detention center holds about a thousand detainees in cages with poor conditions, including extreme temperatures, flooding toilets, overcrowding, and limited food access.
- Congressman Maxwell Frost described overcrowded conditions with 32 individuals confined in each enclosure, which contained three toilets and water spigots above them; meanwhile, detainees reportedly staged a hunger strike to protest insufficient food and very limited time allowed for meals.
- The tribal and environmental claims could delay the project and highlight ongoing human rights concerns amid political controversy over immigration enforcement practices.
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Miccosukee Tribe Seeking to Join Lawsuit Against Everglades Migrant Prison, Citing 'Environmental Degradation'
Citing “significant concerns about environmental degradation” and threats to “traditional and religious ceremonies,” members of the Miccosukee Tribe are trying to join a lawsuit challenging an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades. The post Miccosukee Tribe Seeking to Join Lawsuit Against Everglades Migrant Prison, Citing ‘Environmental Degradation’ appeared first on FlaglerLive.
Poll: 'Alligator Alcatraz' scores with Republicans, riles independents and Dems
A new Economist/YouGov survey shows predictable partisan splits when it comes to the “Alligator Alcatraz” pre-deportation prison for people in the country illegally. The poll shows the concept overall is politically toxic, with 35% approval and 51% disapproval. But what support the illegal immigrant internment center has comes from the political right, with more than 70% of conservatives, Republicans and Donald Trump voters registering approval …
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida wants to join a federal lawsuit against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is seeking to join a federal lawsuit aimed at halting the construction of a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, which tribal members consider their sacred ancestral homelands.
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center
The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park. In a motion to join a lawsuit, as one of the first tribes to potentially sue against the detention center, the case argues that the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Miami-…
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