Alligator Alcatraz, a tented immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades, will likely be emptied within days after a federal judge ordered it closed and dismantled within 60 days. The DeSantis administration appealed the ruling, while the Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates the camp for the federal government, indicated imminent closure in an email. Kevin Guthrie wrote the camp would be 'probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days' to a rabbi coordinating chaplaincy services. Hundreds of detainees were reportedly moved to other Florida facilities ahead of the ruling, and the camp, opened in early July after rapid construction, drew lawsuits and criticism.
Florida's immigration jail known as Alligator Alcatraz will probably be empty of detainees within days, a state official has said, indicating compliance with a judge's order last week that the facility must close. The Republican governor Ron DeSantis's administration appealed the order by federal court judge Kathleen Williams that the tented detention camp in the Florida Everglades, which attracted criticism for its harsh conditions, must be dismantled within 60 days.
But in an email reported Wednesday by the Associated Press, Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida department of emergency management, which operates the jail on behalf of the federal government, appeared to confirm it would be shuttered. We are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days, Guthrie wrote to Mario Rojzman, a Miami Beach rabbi who has been helping to arrange chaplaincy services.
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