The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

A federal judge tossed out part of a lawsuit brought by detainees at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades, handing a partial victory to the Trump administration.

Although a federal judge in Miami ordered their case be moved to another Florida district, the ACLU and other plaintiffs suing the controversial migrant detention facility over access to attorneys insist they'll win the litigation - and that they have already been handed "an important victory.

"Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases," said one immigration attorney

A month into his detention at Alligator Alcatraz, Daniel Ortiz Piñeda faced a stark choice: continue his legal fight for asylum or give it up to hopefully put an end to his extended stay at the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades.

Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration detention center is to be created in the roughly 7,500-resident city of McCook, Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed.

A federal judge handed down a split decision Aug. 18 in a lawsuit brought by detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”