Civil rights lawyers are trying to land a temporary restraining order against Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center, alleging that detainees’ constitutional rights are being violated.

The lawyers claimed during a virtual hearing in Miami federal court Monday that detainees at the Trump administration’s prized detention facility have been denied legal counsel, have had their bond hearings canceled, and are being held without charges.

Eunice Cho, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, called it an “emergency situation.”

“Officers at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ are going around trying to force people to sign deportation orders without the ability to speak to counsel,” she said.

Monday’s hearing addressed a July 16 lawsuit filed by civil rights lawyers that stat

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