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.

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.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much like the island prison in California that Republicans named it after. The detention center has an estimated annual cost of $450 million, according to a public database.

Attorneys representing detainees held at the controversial makeshift immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” are in federal court Monday seeking to allow detainees to meet with attorneys.

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

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