MIAMI – Environmental advocacy groups that say Alligator Alcatraz could cause “irreparable” harm to the Everglades will be back in Miami federal court on Tuesday to try to convince a judge that their concerns warrant temporarily shutting the immigration detention center down.

Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice and the Miccosukee Tribe are seeking a preliminary injunction to stop operations at the site, which was erected hastily over a month ago on an airstrip within the Big Cypress National Preserve. The groups sued the Trump and DeSantis administrations for, they say, dodging a federal law requiring environmental review. The injunction would stop the use of the site as a detention center and halt any further construction there until there’s a ver

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