"A federal appeals court has overturned a legal order requiring Florida and US President Donald Trump's administration to shut Alligator Alcatraz, allowing the immigration detention centre to stay open. In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate court in Atlanta, Georgia, granted a request from the state of Florida and the US homeland security department to block a lower court injunction while a lawsuit plays out. "Alligator Alcatraz is in fact, like we've always said, open for business," said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Last month, US District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a halt to the facility's expansion and for its dismantling to begin within 60 days."

"Detainees at a US immigration detention centre nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" have been on hunger strike for 10 days - protesting against what they say are inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

One detainee in the centre in Florida, Pedro Hernandez, has been hospitalised but continues to refuse food.

He pleaded for help in a recorded message from inside the facility, Sky News's US partner NBC News reported.

He said: "We've all been hungry since Tuesday. I'm not going to eat another plate of food until they show us respect.""

"The wife of a 43-year-old Guatemalan man currently detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” told CNN her husband is enduring harsh conditions similar to those described by lawmakers who toured the facility. After more than two weeks in detention, she said, he has yet to see a lawyer.

“There are too many mosquitoes … He’s in a really bad condition. The power goes off at times because they’re using generators,” the woman told CNN in an interview Tuesday.

“The detainees are being held in tents, and it is very hot there. They’re in bad conditions. … There’s not enough food. Sick people are not getting medication. Every time I ask about his situation, he tells me it’s bad,” she said.""

"Florida state Rep. Angela Nixon (D) condemned President Trump’s visit to the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” — a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades. “This isn‘t about safety. This is actually about Donald Trump building modern-day concentration camps in an effort to disappear people from our communities,” Nixon said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN’s “Out Front.” “Donald Trump‘s blueprint for America has now become barbed wire and broken families,”

"The administration said alligators, crocodiles and pythons in the surrounding wetlands would keep detainees from escaping. ... "We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is, really, deportation," Trump said on the tour. ... The facility is designed to hold 3,000 detainees, with the first expected to arrive as soon as Wednesday. ... The new facility will cost about $450m (£332m) a year to run, according to Noem, and funding will mostly come from a temporary shelter and services programme that the Federal Emergency Management Agency previously used to fund accommodation for undocumented immigrants in US cities. ... Like the former prison Alcatraz in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, which Trump has said he wants to reopen, the facility will be hard to reach.

It will be situated on the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a public airport around 58km (36 miles) from Miami."