Attorney General Marshall and Coalition File Brief in Support of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Attorney General Marshall and Coalition File Brief in Support of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an amicus brief in support of the State of Florida in its challenge to a federal court order that would require the State to dismantle the critically necessary detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The 22-state brief, filed in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, urges the court to stay the lower court’s wrongly issued preliminary injunction.

“Florida, and our law enforcement community, urgently need this critical detention facility to house the most dangerous illegal immigrants. In a shocking decision, a district court judge declared that states must comply with federal environmental reporting requirements that ap