Miami (CNN) — A court hearing on behalf of detainees held at the controversial makeshift immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” seeking to allow them to meet with attorneys has begun.

The hearing began at 10 a.m. ET.

The attorneys from groups including the ACLU, the US Immigration Law Counsel and Florida Keys Immigration filed a lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials in July, saying the defendants “blocked detainees held at the facility from access to legal counsel” and are preventing “people detained in civil immigration custody at Alligator Alcatraz from communicating with legal counsel and from filing motions with the immigration court that could result in their release from detention.”

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