"In one of the most egregious detention centers in the country, built as a makeshift facility at the end of June in the Florida Everglades, countless detainees are going missing from court records and the ICE's online locator system. The Miami Herald, which managed to obtain a few detainee rosters, broke the story on September 16: As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July"
"Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE's online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to "Call ICE for details" - a vague notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported. One of the detainees in the acquired rosters was Michael Borrego Fernandez, a Cuban National, who went missing after being detained at Alligator Alcatraz in July."
"He was moved to another facility in Miami in early August, where he regularly spoke to his mother, wife, and three-year-old daughter. Then, according to ICE's detainee tracker, he was moved to a privately-run detention site in California around Labor Day. After that transfer, his family did not hear from him for over a week. "We don't have anyone by that name," staffers at the Californian facility told Borrego's lawyer, who'd used the tracker to find his whereabouts."
Alligator Alcatraz is a makeshift detention facility in the Florida Everglades opened at the end of June. Hundreds of detainees held there in July have unaccounted-for movements, with two-thirds of more than 1,800 men lacking a clear location in public records. Around 800 detainees had no record in ICE's online database while more than 450 entries instructed users to "Call ICE for details," a vague status tied to processing, transfer, or imminent deportation. Families report sudden loss of contact after transfers; one Cuban detainee moved from Miami to California disappeared from local facility records despite conflicting information from ICE.
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