Man believed dead in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is alive as Ice moves him without notice
Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez ‘desperate’ to be deported due to ‘living hell’ but lawyers and family unable to connectA man whose loved ones thought he had died at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz after alleged delays in appropriate medical care turned out to be alive and was then secretly...
<p>Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez ‘desperate’ to be deported due to ‘living hell’ but lawyers and family unable to connect</p><p>A man whose loved ones thought he had died at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida">Florida’s</a> Alligator Alcatraz after alleged delays in appropriate medical care turned out to be alive and was then secretly moved to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration">immigration</a> detention camp at Fort Bliss, Texas – and has since been moved again.</p><p>Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez is awaiting deportation in what his lawyers said he described as a “living hell”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/florida-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-velasquez">Continue reading...</a>
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