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He should be sent out of the U.One of the three court challenges to an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades has ended after the immigrant detainee who filed the lawsuit agreed to be removed from the United States and will be out of the country soon, his attorneys said.  He should be sent out of the US.     

     The detainee at the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” asked that his case in federal court in Fort Myers, Florida, be dismissed.  “Petitioner is no longer detained at Alligator Alcatraz, he has formally agreed to be removed, and he will soon have left the United States,” his attorneys wrote in a court motion. One of his attorneys, Spencer Amdur of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, said by phone on Tuesday that the detainee, only referred to as M.A. in court documents, would be returning to Chile.

     The lawsuit claimed that immigration was a federal issue, and Florida agencies and private contractors hired by the state had no authority to operate the facility under federal law. Detainees who entered the facility disappeared from the normal detainee tracking system and had difficulty accessing legal help, the lawsuit said.  Florida has led other states in constructing facilities to support President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Besides the Everglades facility, which received its first detainees in July, Florida has opened an immigration detention center in northeast Florida and is looking at opening a third facility in the Florida Panhandle.

     M.A. is married to a U.S. citizen and has five stepchildren who are U.S. citizens. He entered the United States in 2018 on a visa and later applied for asylum. Before his arrest last July, he had a work permit, a social security card and a driver’s license, according to court documents.  After his arrest, but before he was sent to the Everglades facility, officers pressured him to sign an English-only form that he didn’t understand but was later told it was a voluntary removal form, according to court documents.