Five state lawmakers who were denied access to a migrant detention center in the Everglades that state Attorney General James Uthmeier has nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis, reported The Associated Press.
“The DeSantis Administration’s refusal to let us in wasn’t some bureaucratic misstep,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement. “It was a deliberate obstruction meant to hide what’s really happening behind those gates.
“There is no statute that permits the Governor to overrule the Legislature’s oversight authority. This lawsuit is about defending the rule of law, protecting vulnerable people inside that facility, and stopping the normalization of executive overreach.”
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