(MIAMI) -- After weeks of complaints from detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" that they lack access to their attorneys, a federal judge in Miami will consider whether noncitizens housed at the temporary migrant detention center are being deprived of their due process rights.
Their lawyers have argued that the detainees lack a standard way to communicate with their attorneys, resorting to using a recorded pay phone to contact their lawyers in five-minute intervals.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, after a multi-day hearing earlier this month, issued a temporary restraining order blocking further construction at the facility, and is now considering a broader order barring use of the facility.