"This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist," plaintiffs argued in a court filing.

A Central Florida man — legally in the United States, according to his attorneys — has been released from the state’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center, but remains in federal custody, one of those attorneys said Friday.

The US has begun deporting detainees from the makeshift immigration detention center in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” Governor Ron DeSantis said.

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allocate over $600M in grants to states willing to build migrant detention centers modeled after 'Alligator Alcatraz.'

What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,”  said one attorney.