This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” plaintiffs argued in a court filing.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced deportation flights had begun to take off from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility in the Everglades.

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A Central Florida man — legally in the United States, according to his attorneys — has been released from the state’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center, but remains in federal custody, one of those attorneys said Friday.

CNN talked to immigrants being detained at the Florida facility and created a 3D model to explore what conditions are like inside. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reports.

What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,”  said one attorney.

Questioning the very legality of the state-run detention center, the attorneys said in a legal filing Friday that immigrants held at the site are unable to challenge their detention because there is no federal immigration court overseeing their cases — even though the complex of tents and trailers has been operating for nearly a month.

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allocate over $600M in grants to states willing to build migrant detention centers modeled after 'Alligator Alcatraz.'