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By David Fischer, Mike Schneider And Freida Frisaro MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in Miami issued a split decision in a lawsuit over the legal rights of detainees at the \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dismissing part of the suit and also moving the case to a different jurisdiction. U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz issued the decision late Monday, writing in a 47-page ruling that claims the detainees at the facility don\u2019t have confidential access to their lawyers or to hearings in immigration court were rendered moot when the Trump administration recently designated the Krome North Processing Center near Miami as a site for their cases to be heard. The judge heard arguments from both sides in a hearing earlier Monday in Miami. Civil rights… <\/p>\n

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By David Fischer, Mike Schneider And Freida Frisaro MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in Miami issued a split decision in a lawsuit over the legal rights of detainees at the \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dismissing part of the suit and also moving the case to a different jurisdiction. U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz issued the decision late Monday, writing in a 47-page ruling that claims the detainees at the facility don\u2019t have confidential access to their lawyers or to hearings in immigration court were rendered moot when the Trump administration recently designated the Krome North Processing Center near Miami as a site for their cases to be heard. The judge heard arguments from both sides in a hearing earlier Monday in Miami. Civil rights... <\/p>\n

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