This class action from the detainees and their attorneys adds to the mounting legal opposition to the detention center, where people started arriving two weeks ago after a speedy eight-day construction at an old airstrip.

“When you’re brought into Alligator Alcatraz as an illegal alien, the first thing that they do, DHS offers you an ability to take a flight back to your home country at federal expense, so nobody actually has to go to Alligator Alcatraz. The illegals are given the right to simply self-deport, not even at their expense,” DeSantis told Newsmax.

Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has withdrawn a lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis now that he has filled a Tallahassee-area judgeship.

"No matter your politics, the ACLU has probably annoyed you," writes former Sun Sentinel opinion page editor Rosemary O'Hara, who has joined the board of the ACLU of Florida. But the organization ...

CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org. TALLAHASSEE, FL – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida and a coalition of journalistic and First Amendment organizations today delivered letters to two top judicial officials in Florida urging them to ensure that foreclosure court proceedings in the state are open to the public.

The Republican governor of this southern US state has ramped up pressure on numerous institutions to force them to cooperate with immigration enforcement authorities.