Miami (AP)-A legal challenge for manufactured in freight Immigration prohibition center Florida Everglades were filed in the wrong site, with government lawyers on Wednesday argued in two hearing on the validity of “Elegator Alkatraz” in a case brought by environmental groups.
Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dad County, Florida is the southern district of Florida Wrong place For federal trial by environmental groups, because the detention center is located in the neighboring Kolier County, which is in the central district of the state, according to government pleas.
Regarding any decision of US District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami, whether the matter can also be affected by a separate lawsuit brought by advocates of civil rights who say that in “crocodile Alkatraz”, detainees have been denied access to lawyers and immigration courts.
In the case of civil rights, the federal and the state government’s defendants also argue that the trial was filed in the wrong site. At the request of a judge, the civil rights groups on Tuesday filed a revised class-carriage complaint, arguing that the constitutional rights of the prisoners were being violated.
environmental groups Filed their suit Last month, against federal and state officials in the southern district of Florida, an airstrip for the project is being built on an airstrip. Florida Everglade’s Heart To stop because this process did not follow the state and federal environmental laws. In addition to Wednesday’s hearing at the site, a second hearing has been set for the next week at the request of environmental groups for temporary prohibition.
A few days after the trial was filed, the first of hundreds of prisoners came, and the convenience has the ability to have 3,000 people.
The Detention Center was opened by Florida officials, but critics said it is not clear whether the federal immigration officers or state officials are calling the shots. Exile flights “Elegator Alkatraz” began last week.
Williams on Monday ordered that any agreement should be produced in the court between the US Department of Homeland Security and Florida Department of Emergency Management, a step that can throw some light on the relationship between federal and state agencies in running the convenience.
Critics have condemned the convenience as a cruel and inhuman, as well as a threat to ecological sensitive humid land, while Florida village Ron Desantis and other Republican state officials defend it as part of it. State aggressive push To support President Donald Trump Crack on illegal immigration,
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David Fisher and Mike Schneider, Associated Press
