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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Schneider

Immigrant detainee at 'Alligator Alcatraz' agrees to leave US, asks that lawsuit be dismissed

US Immigration Detention Center - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

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.

The detainee at the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” asked that his case in federal court in Fort Myers, Florida, be dismissed on Monday.

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