The day after a federal judge temporarily blocked an order to wind down operations at Alligator Alcatraz earlier this month, Florida opened its second state-run immigration detention center, dubbed "Deportation Depot." Although the Sunshine State's second facility isn't likely to run into the same environmental legal challenges that Alligator Alcatraz has, it may face the same questions regarding facility management and constitutional rights violations.

Since July 2010, federal immigration detainees in custody for more than 48 hours have been put into the Online Detainee Locator System, or the ODLS database, which family members, legal representatives, and members of the public have used to ascertain the detainees' whereabouts. However, the system was designed to track detainees held by e

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