Puerto Rico ACLU denounces transfer of immigrant detainees to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Puerto Rico is denouncing the transfer of immigrants detained in the U.S. territory to "Alligator Alcatraz," the new immigration detention facility built in Florida in just one week on an abandoned airstrip surrounded by swampland. People who are taken into immigration custody in Puerto Rico, many of them from the Dominican Republic, are sent to the mainland U.S., as the island lacks permanent detention centers that can hold detainees for prolonged periods. The ACLU of Puerto Rico said Friday in a news release...