Hundreds of men who were detained by the Aligator Alcatraz, who were in the gate of urgent migrants’ detention center in Evergladese, meant leaving the maze, but a familiar federal immigration process and access to what several immigration lawyers described as an alternative system.
One Guatemalan man, detained in the tent’s place, was accidentally deported to Guatemala before a scheduled bond meeting, his lawyer, reminiscent of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was misrepresented to Salvador.
A 35 -year -old Cuba man could not be located in a California detention facility where the US immigration and customs enforcement said they had sent him, leaving his family and lawyer crazy trying to determine where he is more than a week, they said.
Since the end of August, two -thirds of more than 1,800 men detained in the Aligator Alcatraz in July, where the Miami Herald was found in July. Herald received names from two detained lists.
About 800 detainees showed no entries in the ICE online database. More than 450 lists were not available, and merely stated the user to “call ICE for more information” – a unclear notation, which, according to lawyers, may mean that the detainee is still being managed, transferring between two sites or deportation.
It is possible that some men who could not be located were still “Aligator Alcatraz”. Unlike most immigration centers, alligator Alcatraz is a state, and detainees often do not appear in a database owned by the Federal Agency. Florida also does not follow the system to search for those who have been detained on the site.
However, this would not have happened in the light of all detained persons without records in the federal database, as the residents of the institution had decreased dramatically at the end of August, and on August 21st. August 21 The judgment effectively suspended the operations at this place.
The results of the detainees who were accommodated in the institution were a new meaning after the appellate court annulled that previous decision, allowing the institution to renew the operations.
Some alligators Alcatraz detainees who could not be in the ICE database may have been deported – although herald’s internal data show that most of the detainees had no final orders from the judge before entering the object.
Some of these deportations were due to the fact that the detainees decided to abandon the ongoing immigration cases to terminate their detention in the office and in the harsh conditions, which were stored in chain-connectors in tents with little protection against elements.
“It has become a chicken game to see who will blink first to find out if the client will say, ‘I don’t want to be detained under these conditions, just send me,” said Alex Solomiany, a Miami immigration lawyer.
However, some immigrants who did not want to leave were also deported, even if they still had the legal right to stay.
One of the Solomiany customers is a 53 -year -old man from Guatemala, who has been in the US since 2001.
Shortly after it opened in July, it was sent to alligator Alcatraz after it was stopped by Palm Bych County Palm Patrol Patrol.
Solomiany submitted an offer to run the Bond Guatemalan man who worked as a home painter and was married to children. August 1st lawyer In Miami, he appeared with a planned hearing at the Miami’s “Krome” detention center, hoping to see his client.
That’s when the government’s lawyer told him that his client was accidentally sent to Guatemala instead of transferring to the Krome before hearing, Solomiany said.
Solomiany is now working with ICE to return his client to the United States. The man’s family asked that his name would not be used for fear of reward.
John Sandweg, a former ICE director at the Obama administration, said that in a little more than a week, the institution was hasty to make mistakes inevitable.
“The way it was released that he had stood up overnight … It all gives mistakes,” he said.
Ron Desnti, a representative of the Florida Government, directed Herald to the ice when he asked to comment. The US Homeland Security Department, overseeing the ICE, did not respond to several requests to comment.
“Alligator Alcatraz’s label”
Now, more than two months after the first time the site opened, lawyers say the chaos that marked the early days of the object followed their customers even after they left.
“They all have experienced some bad results because they have been marked by the Alcatraz alligator label,” said Immigration lawyer Zachary Perez, talking about almost half a dozen detainees represented by his company.
According to his family, one former person detained by the institution disappeared for more than a week after he was removed from the object.
Michael Borrego Fernandez, a 35 -year -old Cuban citizen, has been detained by Aligator Alcatraz almost all July. He was one of the several detainees who appealed to Trump and inspired administrations for legal possibility in the institution.
Borrego was transferred to the Birk on August 2. At midnight and, according to the ICE retentioner locator, was transferred to a working day to the Otay Mesa detention center-the migrant detention site in San Diego.
While in Breome, Borrego called his mother, wife and three -year -old daughter at least once a day, his mother Yaneisy Fernandez told. However, after transferring it, his family has not heard for more than a week.
Michael Borrego Fernandez hugs his mother Yaneisy Fernandez.
Borrego’s lawyer Mich Gonzalez said he had repeatedly called the California office, but he was told every time that no one was detained there.
The Borrego family was worried about his health.
As an Aligator Alcatraz, he needed emergency operations for Stage 4 Hemorrhoids. His mother said he had severe pain after the operation and did not receive proper medical care during his recovery period, most of whom missed the bed.
Fernandez said Fernandez.
“It’s like psychological torture,” she said. “Where is humanity?”
Finally, after more than a week, they heard again from Borrego.
But he wasn’t in California.
He was 2,000 miles from where ICE said he would be.
Borrego was suddenly deported to Mexican Tabasco.
McClatchy’s Tyler’s daughters contributed to this story.