In recent days, life inside the notorious “Aligator Alcatras”

When her son was taken into the care of immigration, Janei Fernandez was afraid of the worst. Then she was called “Alligator Alcatraz”.

“We had no idea where he was until he called us,” said Janei BBC. “He said,” Mom, they took me to the crocodile object. “That’s how he said.”

A temporary immigration investigator, built in Florida’s Evergled, quickly became a polarization symbol of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.

Now, only two months after its opening, the Internal Security Department (DHS) said he would close it in accordance with the judge’s orders. The process is already underway – Border Tsar Tom Khman told the BBC during a press conference that only about 50% of the detainees remain.

The BBC talked to the families of two prisoners who moved last month, saying that their loved ones disappeared in the system when they were in their most vulnerable.

This includes the son of Janais Michael Borega Fernandez, who says that after moving to another object he left his bleeding when he is much pain in serious pain. It is part of the current lawsuit that claims that the prisoner was denied personal access to his lawyers.

Built for eight days at the end of June in Everglyida, protective wetlands that were famous for their alligators, South -Florida content quickly became one of the most famous immigration centers in the United States.

The united “Aligator Aligator” was built for accommodation of about 3000 people, but was never at the capacity, even when the number of people in immigration detention in the United States reached record 59,000 in mid -August.

Although it was open, it was lightning for a discussion in America about Trump’s repression on illegal immigration. Some came to visit the center to protest, and others came to take proud selfies with the oligator Alcatras sign on the street.

When the facility first opened, Florida Republican Party instructed alligator alcatraz: T -shirts, hats and breweries.

“People are released about the idea that we finally close the border and send people who are illegally committing crimes from the country,” said Florida Gop Evan Pauer.

“We have the laws that you have to follow,” said BBC Jack Lombardi, a Republican voter in Florida. “And you are a guest in our country. (…) The facts you came to this country illegally. You came here undesirable.”

There were conflicting reports of conditions inside. After the visit of the legislators in July, the Republicans said it was good, safe and clean. The Democrats, however, described the conditions as vile, crowded and unsanitary.

Now, now, Judge ordered a preliminary ban to close it within 60 daysWhen they hear a case that claims that the government did not comply with the protocol when it built the object. Although the government is appealing this decision, DHS said he would obey the judge’s order.

“I disagree with the judge who made the decision,” Homan said in the media on Thursday. “I went down there. I went into the detention zone. I saw a clean, well -maintained object.”

Michael Fernandez moved to the United States from Cuba in 2019 and received a temporary political asylum, his mother said.

After in 2021 he got into the hot tube scheme, the judge ordered him to be rejecting. In June, he pleaded guilty to the Grand Circle to avoid the term in prison, although he said he did not imagine that the company he worked was fraudulent customers. His lawyer also says that Michael did not know about the order to remove against him.

In January, he was pulled by the police, going to school. Until June, he was in custody of US customs and immigration officers and moved to the Florida detention center.

Michael was less than a week old in the Alkatraz alligator when Janei called from some men detained next to him.

“They told me that Michael woke up in the blood,” she said. Michael developed hemorrhoids 4 stage – the most difficult type – she said. He was transferred to the hospital and undergoing surgery to the colon.

Returning to the object, Michael, short, was monitored by telephone calls. “He couldn’t even stay on the phone for more than a few seconds because he had such a lot of pain,” she said. He told her he had an infection. “He felt he would have a heart attack,” Janeis said. “And they returned him to the hospital.”

Michael told her that he was not given painkillers, and one night was handcuffed so he could not fall asleep before the surgery was required.

Janei says that Michael told her that they did not allow him to take a shower and did not allow him to change his underwear when his rabbits were covered with his blood and a stool.

“It’s not hygienically. They left him there as a dog like the one who was thrown away,” she added.

Michael’s case is now part of the trial against the Trump administration, which claims that the detainees have no proper access to legal lawyers through confidential personal meetings with their lawyers. DHS told BBC that there is a physical space for lawyers to meet their customers.

The lawsuit continues. On August 1, he was transferred to another object.

DHS told the BBC in a statement: “These claims about Michael Boreg Fernandez are false.” They said ICE provided him with “proper medical care and medicines.”

The Florida Emergency Management Department said the detainees had access to “24/7 medical care, which includes a pharmacy, as well as clean, workers for hygiene and may schedule personal and virtual meetings with lawyers.”

Micha Gonzalez, lawyer Michael, says while the immigration isolators are not supposed to have an umbilical point – a place to control the immigrants who face deportation – the conditions in these objects are “humiliated.”

“And more and more camp for Evergled,” he said.

Janeis is not the only one who had a loved one, seriously ill in the Aligator Aligat.

When her husband Gladis Mark Alvarez Bravo, 38, was arrested and taken to the detention center, it was her worst nightmare.

Then he disappeared for more than a week.

It all started more than a month ago when Mark left her home in Talahasi, Florida to visit the client to give an assessment of construction work. Not far from their apartment, the icy agents pulled him up.

“I ask the officers why do you accept it?” Gladis reminded. “His legitimate waiting status. (…) he’s not a criminal.”

Mark arrived in the US from Chile seven years ago. He entered the country for a tourist visa he overcame and then applied for political asylum. Gladys, a US citizen who met his friends at the same time, said the claim was ongoing and was allowed to remain in the country, waiting for the decision. They married 11 days before the arrest.

In response to the BBC, DHS is assumed that Mark was “a well -known member of the South America’s theft.” Gladis said her husband had no conviction.

As soon as he was taken away, Gladys worried about her husband’s safety.

Gladys said the brand has a genetic state of the heart called Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome, which causes the heart to be fake. In April this year, he underwent a medical procedure for the treatment of his illness and took the heart daily. Gladys said the BBC that after the procedure he also signed a pneumonia contract he still suffered when he was arrested.

Initially, Gladys did not imagine where he was taken, because he did not appear in the Lice Locator database, the official internet baza data showing where the people are being held.

The Gunther Sanabria, an immigration lawyer who provided customers in Aligatar Aligators, said it became a common occurrence for people detained by ICE, so as not to appear in the official locator system.

“We cry every week,” he said, “because they don’t know where their family members are, and they went to work that morning, and they were taken away.”

But Mark’s calls from the Florida detention center reassured Gladys.

On August 14, he called to tell her that he had a gap in the kidneys that influenced his spine.

The next day, another man held with Mark, called her to say that her husband was in a wheelchair and was taken to the Florida Kendal hospital.

It was the last thing she heard for more than a week. She checked on the glacier daily, but could not find his name.

It took eight days before she learned what happened.

“I can’t believe it is really going on,” she said. – Where’s my husband?

DHS told the BBC that Mark was receiving medical care but did not answer a specific question about where it is currently. In a statement to the BBC, they said, “He is wary and can call his family at any time.”

Finally, she was called Mark on August 22. He returned to the Aligator Alcatras. But for a few days they were preparing to move it again. Neither Mark nor Gladys knew where it was necessary.

“I am very nervous, very confused in everything that is happening, and my nerves are a complete crash,” she said.

As of this week, Mark seems to have been transferred to a 35 mile detention center.

While the judge’s decision to close the object indicated by the Trump administration, other temporary facilities are built in several states under the leadership of the Republicans, including the second facility in Florida, called the “Deportic Depot” and in the state of Indiana, which the internal security officers called “Speedway Slammer”.

Looking at the future, Homan said that while “alligator Alcatraz” was “a great transitional object”, he did not see it as a long -term decision.

“I think Ice requires more brick and premises (objects),” he told reporters. “We have money to build infrastructure … Permanent objects.”

With additional reporting Bernd Debusman -Younger