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Last month, she saw nine Black men piled into a visitation room, surrounded with glass windows, that holds a small table and four chairs. They had pushed the table against the wall and spread a cardboard box flat across the floor, where they were taking turns sleeping. The men had no access to a bathroom or drinking water. They stood because there was no room to sit. Blankenship said three of the men put their documents up to the window so she could better understand their cases. All had overstayed their visas and were detained as part of an immigration enforcement action, not criminal proceedings. ‘It’s happening everywhere’: 1 in 3 ICE detainees held in overcrowded facilities, data show August 29, 2025 https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/special-episode-the-legal-amp-environmental-concerns-of-alligator-alcatraz-wgcu-news monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/how-ice-is-turning-human-misery-into-a-170-billion-business-what-a-day-podcast monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/a-black-hole-attorneys-say-they-still-cant-reach-clients-in-alligator-alcatraz-miami-herald monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bb9aee651782740d72d0eb/f459a6c6-e198-400b-8d93-b7e0103f0acc/Black-Hole_Miami-Herald.jpg Our News - A black hole’: Attorneys say they still can’t reach clients in Alligator Alcatraz | Miami Herald - One week after the first detainees began arriving at the Florida-run detention center for migrants in the Everglades, Miami immigration attorney Katie Blankenship showed up at the gates of Alligator Alcatraz with a list of five names and a demand: let me in to see them. She waited two and a half hours, only to be told to put her name on a list and to wait between 24 and 48 hours for a call back. “These folks have due process and the right to counsel,” Blankenship told the employee manning the gate on July 10. “They cannot be denied counsel for this long and we cannot have a black hole of information where we do not know how to contact clients.” That call has yet to come. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310625140.html https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/katie-blankenship-on-alligator-alcatraz-ap monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bb9aee651782740d72d0eb/f1ce9e11-b037-4781-946e-ada48a94d511/Ap-Alligator-Alcatraz.jpg Our News - Katie Blankenship on Alligator Alcatraz (AP) - “They have no way to bathe, no way to wash their mouths, and the toilet overflows and the floor is flooded… They eat once a day and have two minutes to eat. 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I have no idea whether they’re going to be able to show up in court, what court they’re going to be heard in, how I even present myself as their lawyer in court,’ she [Katie Blankenship] said. ‘After I went in on Thursday, all of my guys disappeared from the ICE locator, overnight.’” Attorney of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainee unable to speak to her client, says 15-year-old boy spent at least 3 days at facility | July 12, 2025 https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/katie-blankenship-cnn-glades-detention monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bb9aee651782740d72d0eb/1769632697907-HV449JI2IXMQ9BXFEBMP/Screenshot-2026-01-29-at-4.36.28%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Our News - Katie Blankenship on CNN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/katie-blankenship-on-reason monthly 0.5 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bb9aee651782740d72d0eb/633ba425-ac89-4972-8f4c-81ca2abf5e89/Reason-ICE.jpg Our News - Katie Blankenship on Reason - “‘I could never get an answer to why my clients are being sent to the SHU, and the SHU is an exceptionally hard place to see people,’ [Katie] Blankenship says. ‘They don't even allow you to pass documents. There's literally no way to even get a signature on something. You can't hear each other. It's just an awful situation. That's just for legal representation, not for what the people inside are going through.’” Overcrowding and Dysfunction Produced a Quiet Riot at a Miami Federal Prison Holding ICE Detainees reason | May 27, 2025 https://www.sanctuaryofthesouth.com/news/nep4lwzrrxj5qbwhzxs71bdxj7f8bz monthly 0.5 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bb9aee651782740d72d0eb/ade94f0e-d5db-4c7d-a3df-9f35ed387cd2/nbc.jpg Our News - Mich Gonzales on NBC News - “Mich P. 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