The group has received reports this week that detainees from the island have been sent to the Florida facility and allege "rights violations and dehumanizing treatment" there.

While President Donald Trump vowed that the detention center will hold “some of the most vicious people on the planet,” a roster of detainees obtained last week by the Times/Herald revealed that of 700 names listed, more than a third had only immigration violations but no criminal record in the United States.

Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, logistical headaches have emerged at “Alligator Alcatraz.”