MIAMI – For much of July, Pedro Lorenzo Concepción was held at Alligator Alcatraz along with dozens of other Cuban nationals in a detention camp billed as a last stop for immigrants slated for deportation — an unnerving situation for someone whose repatriation had already been rejected by the Cuban government.

He begged staff at the facility to offer some clarity on his fate, but received no response, according to his longtime partner, Daimarys Hernández. He was eventually transferred this month to Krome detention center, where he is still waiting to learn what will happen to him.

Lorenzo Concepción, 44, is among hundreds of Cubans who at one time or another have been held at the site since the first detainees arrived on July 2, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and Tampa

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