Closure of Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center can proceed, judge says

[In It to Win It]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz ” must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as the state and federal governments fight that decision.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams late Wednesday denied requests to pause her order to wind down operations at the facility, which has been plagued by reports of unsanitary conditions and detainees being cut off from the legal system.

The facility was already being emptied of detainees, according to an email exchange shared with The Associated Press on Wednesday. The executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie, said on Aug. 22 “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days,” in a message to South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman about chaplaincy services at the facility, implying there would soon be no need.

The detention center was quickly built two months ago at a little-used training airport, where chain-link cages now surround large white tents filled with rows of bunk beds. State officials signed more than $245 million in contracts for building and operating the facility, which officially opened July 1.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-wont-halt-closure-alligator-135232735.html

[Blues Heron]

1. Chalk that up as a victory, but keep up the pressure on these bastards!

[pandr32]

2. Where are they off-loading the detainees?

Also, are there records?

[Takket]

3. I have no doubt this presidency will result in mass graves being found someday.

[pandr32]

4. Every single person matters.

Well, maybe not 'every' person. There are some I am waiting anxiously to find are either expired or held accountable. There is a 'tRump' grave site at a corner of a Bedminster golf course that could be expanded with another plot and then left unattended.