(Miami) An American court decided Thursday that the Florida detention center nicknamed “Alcatraz des Alligators” could remain open while waiting for a decision to be examined on appeal.
A Florida trial judge had prohibited Trump administration two weeks ago from receiving new migrants there and had ordered him to withdraw numerous equipment within 60 days, signifying his closure in the long term.
But a panel of three judges of a court of appeal ruled on Thursday that the detention center could remain open as long as the appeal brought by the Trump administration against its closure had not been decided.
The “Alcatraz des Alligators” had been in a hurry in June, in a chrono week, with bunk beds, roasted cages, and white canvas pavilions, on an abandoned aerodrome in the middle of the marshy region of the Everglades.
When he had visited the center just before its opening, Donald Trump, who made the fight against illegal immigration a priority of his second mandate, had joked that the alligators who populate the neighboring swamps would play the role of cheap guards.
Its geographical location and a reference to the famous island of the Bay of San Francisco-Que Donald Trump wants to reopen-him are worth his nickname.
Several migrants detained in the center showed AFP with appalling conditions. “Even an animal would not be treated as well. It is torture, “said from the Luis Gonzales center, joined by phone, explaining to share a cell rarely cleaned with around thirty people, in scorching conditions by day and icy at night, among omnipresent mosquitoes.
The legal action was initiated by two environmental protection associations, which believe that the center threatens the fragile ecosystem of the surrounding swamps and was built without the required environmental impact studies.
