“Alligator Alcatraz”: Judge forbids new detains

A US court has prohibited the detention of further migrants in the “Alligator Alcatraz” deportation prison. Federal judge Kathleen Williams also instructed the government of President Donald Trump and the government of the state of Florida on Thursday (local time) to partially dismantle the facility. The government of the Republican governor Ron Desantis in Florida announced that it was judging. Williams had already imposed an attachment freezer for the deportation prison about two weeks ago.

Now she ordered that all fences that the government had set up to lock the system must be dismantled within 60 days. In addition, light systems, generators as well as the waste and waste water system must be removed, which would be equivalent to setting the operation of the deportation prison. In addition, the judge was subjected to the fact that other people “who are not already detained in the facility” are brought there.

Williams’ judgment followed a lawsuit by environmental activists. The organizations of Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biodiversity had argued that the detention center is a matters of the species -rich ecosystem in the swamp landscape. The prison was built in a hurry without the prescribed environmental studies.

The provisional building for the deportation nast was built in June within eight days. He received his name based on the dismissed notorious Alcatraz prison on an island in front of San Francisco. The facility in Florida is located on an abandoned airfield in the Everglades, a grass landscape, which is largely under water, which is populated by alligators.

US President Donald Trump visited the detention center in July and praised the harsh adhesion conditions. During his tour, Trump said, in the swamps that surround the prison, there were “many police officers in the form of alligators”. You have to “not pay so much” the reptiles.

According to Minister of Homeland, Kristi Noem should offer space for 3000 migrants with cages made of metal fence and floor beds, who are waiting for their deportation.

The facility is also criticized for human rights organizations. The organizations and occupants report abuse. The 25-year-old Cuban Luis González told the AFP news agency that he shared his cell with around 30 other migrants. “Not even animals are treated like this. This is torture,” he complained.

The deportation prison is exemplary for the hard migration policy of the US government, which is supported by Florida. Governor Desantis had said that he wanted to help Trump to do the “removal” of the illegal migrants “without bureaucracy” with the deportation prison. Trump had already announced “the largest deportation program in the history of the United States” in the election campaign.