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.

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.

The Trump administration was handed a partial victory on Monday when a judge tossed out part of a lawsuit brought by immigrant advocates over the legal rights of those being held at the Florida facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz.

"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

Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.