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(NewsNation) — State officials person dismissed reports of an "uprising" astatine a controversial migration detention center successful the Florida Everglades, calling them "manufactured."
In a connection to The Guardian, officials insisted detainees astatine the facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," were kept in "clean, harmless conditions" and that guards were "properly trained."
Detainees had alleged teardrop state and unit were utilized to interruption up a caller disturbance wrong the center, with immoderate stating " a batch of radical person bled."
The Miami-based, Spanish-language presumption Noticias 23 reported the incidental occurred arsenic authorities worked to vacate the facility.
State officials, however, person maintained that nary specified incidental took place.
Citing biology concerns, justice orders shutdown
The detention halfway is successful the process of shutting down pursuing a federal judge's order to adjacent it implicit biology concerns.
The White House has vowed to combat the ruling, seen arsenic a setback to the Trump administration's deportation agenda.
"We deliberation it's despicable that an activistic justice has inserted themselves successful this migrant detention facility," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. "DHS is present having to relocate these amerciable immigrants to different detention facilities astir the country. That is an unnecessary load connected the Department of Homeland Security and these agents who should beryllium removing these criminals from our community."
Facility's closure could outgo Florida $218M
At its peak, the installation held about 1,000 detainees.
Kevin Guthrie, enforcement manager of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, told the Associated Press past period that it could be emptied wrong days, with 1 suit estimating astatine slightest 100 radical person been deported from the site.
Closing the halfway is expected to outgo the authorities astir $218 million.
