Tensions in Florida. The detention center that was hurriedly set up by his government Donald Trump In the Everglick Merries will remain open for the time being: So he decided on Thursday (04.09.2025) a US court, suspending a previous order for his closure. The installation, built at an abandoned airport, has already been known under the name “Alcatraz with alligators”.
Two weeks earlier, a court in Florida had banned Donald Trump’s government from transferring new immigrants there and ordered her to withdraw part of the equipment within 60 days in view of a definitive closure. However, a three -member Court of Appeal suspended the decision until the government’s appeal was examined.
Donald Trump, who has set the fight against irregular migration in absolute priority in his second term, had visited the site before the inauguration. He even jokes by saying that the alligators of the surrounding Eli were guarding the center for free.
But behind this rhetoric, prisoners’ testimonies describe intolerable conditions. “Not even an animal would withstand such treatment. It is torture, “Luis Gonzalez, who is held in an unhealthy cell with other thirty people, told AFP at the heat of the day, freezing at night and with mosquitoes everywhere.
Two environmental organizations – Friends of the Everglades and Center for Biological Diversity – also appealed to justice, arguing that the Center threatens the fragile Everglids ecosystem and was built without a previous environmental impact study.