An American federal judge has stopped the construction of the new on Thursday (Alcatraz de los Caimanes) while analyzing a Against the site, which opened a month ago in the middle of the natural area of the Everglades of Florida.
The judge Kathleen Williams from the southern district of Florida has suspended “immediate” for 14 days works that are carried out on the sitewest of Miami, such as the installation of new infrastructure, paving, excavations and fence, has exhibited Friends of the Everglades, an association that leads the demand against the place.
The demand for this organization, the Tribu Miccosukee y Center for Biological Diversity seeks to stop the center for environmental reasons, open last July 3 and with a Current capacity for 2,000 people That he hopes to grow to 4,000, according to the emergency management division of Florida (DEM) last month.
The order does not prevent continuing with the site operationwhich was built in a “precipitous” way and without an environmental impact assessment, according to Friends of the Everglades, which affects a natural area with 36 species of Florida threatened such as the Panther Floridana, the wooden stork, and the American caiman.
“We are pleased that the judge has seen the urgent need to pause the additional constructionand we hope that our final goal of protecting the only and threatened Everglades ecosystem progress caused by this mass detention center, “said Eve Samples, director of Friends of the Everglades.
The concern of environmentalists increased after the announcement on July 25 of the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, that the Department of National Security (DHS) began to Operate flights with deportees from the site, where there is an airport that was not used, from which at least 600 migrants have expelled.
Samples has denounced the “Severe threats that this massive detention field represents in the heart of the Everglades”pointing out that trucks transfer fuel for human airplanes and waste, in addition to at least 20 acres (almost 81,000 square meters) of new pavement.
Judge Williams has allowed associations to continue with the lawsuit filed on June 27 while The interested parties complete the hearings to expose the arguments for and against the place.
This is a different claim from that analyzed by Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II, also from the Southern District of Florida, and who filed defenders led by the US Union for civil liberties (ACLU) that represent migrants arrested for complaints of violations of their human rights.
