{"id":398262,"date":"2025-09-04T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:29:10","slug":"alligator-alcatraz-immigration-jail-can-stay-open-appeals-court-says-us-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398262\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says | US immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

An appellate panel on Thursday put on hold an order to wind down operations at the \u201cAlligator Alcatraz<\/a>\u201d immigration center in the Florida Everglades.<\/p>\n

Last month a federal judge in Miami had ordered<\/a> the closure of the Trump administration\u2019s notorious immigration<\/a> jail within 60 days, and ruled that no more detainees were to be brought to the facility while it was being wound down.<\/p>\n

That shock ruling by district court judge Kathleen Williams built on a temporary restraining order she had issued two weeks<\/a> previously, halting further construction work at the remote tented camp, which has attracted waves of criticism for harsh conditions, abuse of detainees and denial of due process<\/a> as they await deportation, as well as environmental damage.<\/p>\n

The state of Florida<\/a>, which built the hastily-erected camp and runs it on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, then appealed.<\/p>\n

On Thursday afternoon, a three-judge panel in Atlanta decided by a 2-1 vote to stay Williams\u2019s order pending the outcome of Florida\u2019s appeal, saying the ruling was in the public interest.<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis\u2019s administration in late June had raced to build the facility on an isolated airstrip surrounded by wetlands to aid Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to deport<\/a> people deemed to be in the US unlawfully.<\/p>\n

The Florida Republican governor said the location in the swampy and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much like the infamous, now disused, island prison in San Francisco Bay that Republicans named it after.<\/p>\n

The US president visited the facility and praised its harsh environment for detainees, some of whom have accused the authorities of inadequate medical care<\/a> and other poor conditions.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appellate panel on Thursday put on hold an order to wind down operations at the \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-398262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148158690327278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}