People held at the brand new evolutionary immigration arrest center that officials have dubbed “Caimà Alcatraz” say worms appear at the food.
To the newly established Everglad immigration detention centernickname “Alligator Alcatraz“The detainees report to find worms in their food. Non -operating toilets result in flooded land of waste and fecal insects.
Inside The large white tents of the installationThe ranks of bunk beds are embedded in the cages of the chain. It is said that detainees spend days without showering -or receiving prescribed medicines and can only be communicated by telephone with lawyers and family members. The air conditioning units are sporadically extinguished in the middle of the intense heat.
A few days after the visit of President Donald Trump, lawyers, defenders, detainees and their families, manifested concerns about the makeshift installation, which was quickly built by the Governor Ron’s republican administration in a remote air Surrounded by Swampland before the detainees began to arrive on July 2.
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“These are human beings who have inherent rights and have the right to dignity,” said immigration lawyer Josephine Arroyo. “And they violate many of their rights by putting them there.”
However, officials have answered these descriptions of the conditions at the detention center. Stephanie Hartman, spokesman for Moldy The division of emergency management, which built the center, counteracted: “Reports on the conditions of the installation are completely false. The installation complies with all the necessary standards and is in good operation.”
But officials have been close to particularities and rejected applications for the media to access it. A group of democratic legislators have taken legal actions against the administration of Disantis, demanding entry, while authorities organize a visit to the site for state legislators and members of the congress on Saturday.
The Associated Press obtained first -hand descriptions representing the installation as an impure, with inadequate medical services, causing intense distress among the inmates.
“The conditions in which we live are inhumanes,” a Venezuelan interior reported by telephone from the center. “My main concern is the psychological pressure they are providing people to sign their self -information.”
The individual, who wanted to stay anonymous to avoid a decline, described his confinement zone as “zoo cages” with eight beds each, dragging mosquitoes, crickets and frogs. He noted that the inmates are closed throughout the day without the windows not explaining the time and said that during the meetings with an immigration officer and customs, the arrests involve fists in the wrists and ankles, escorted by two guards taking their arms and a third one who dragged them.
These circumstances seem decisively more severe compared to other immigration detention facilities, which were previously marked by defenders and staff for unhealthy conditions and medical helplessness, the facilities that now seem almost “advanced”, according to Atara Eig, an immigration lawyer.
Trump and his supporters have praised the hardness and isolation of the Florida detention center, saying that it is suitable for the “worst of the worst” and that it could serve as a nationally exemplary to encourage immigrants to “self-information”.
However, reports indicate that detainees include people without a criminal record, as well as at least one teenager, according to lawyers.
During a protest against the conditions on Thursday, the camp detainees chose to jump the dining room, stated that there was a Venezuelan man. He has been in the United States since 2021 and was transferred to the facility on July 7, he detailed Rebecca Shapress, director of the Immigration Clinic at Miami School of Law.
“We were left without eating all night. They brought a Cuban protester to a punishment cell,” he revealed, sharing the tense situation inside the arrest walls.
Contrary to the claims of inmates, DEM spokesman, Hartman, refuted these allegations, insisting: “These are complete manufacture. No incident has occurred. All detainees have access to medicine and medical care as needed, and the detainees always get three meals, unlimited drinking water, showers and other needs.”
However, immigration lawyer, Katie Blankenship, echoed concerns about insufficient medical facilities, explaining the statements of a 35 -year -old Cuban client who lamented days without access to showers.
This narrative is supported by the detainee’s wife, a 28 -year -old green card holder and his mother’s 2 -year -old -year -old north -American daughter, who spoke with AP under the anonymity mantle for fear of repercussions.
“They have no way to bathe -no way to wash -their mouths, the toilet overflowing and the floor is flooded with pee and poop,” described the distressed woman. “They eat once a day and have two minutes to eat. The meals have worms,” he said.
Lawyers say that many constitutional protections that are released, the rights to the process due to the detainees stand out as rape.
Blankenship expressed his frustration after being rejected at access when he ventured to the isolated installation and persisted for hours to consult his clientele, including a 15 -year -old boy from Mexico free from any criminal accusation. A safety officer asked him to wait for a 48 -hour call return to report the next appointment available.
“I said well what is the phone number I can track?
Arroyo client is a 36 -year -old Mexican individual who migrated to the United States as a child and has been in the center since July 5 after his arrest to drive with a suspended license in the County of Orange in Florida. It is described for protection within the framework of the DACA Program for the actions deferred for the arrivals to children (DACA), escaping the deportation of those brought to the country during childhood.
Despite paying his bond with the understanding that would be released in Miami, Cuba’s Blankenship client was confined shocking and transported to the Everglades.
Eig struggles tirelessly by the release of a detainee at the age of 50, maintaining a legally clean board and has a stay of elimination, which indicates that he is against the law that was deported to him while his appeal. However, ensuring a good audience is still an evasive battle for EIG.
It has been proposed that an immigration court of the Krome Deteting Center of Miami “can be auditory cases” of the evolutionary installation, but from Friday they are still waiting.