Detained in the temporary detention center known as " Alligator Alcatraz ," he spent his time confined in a chain-link cage with another man, stuck in what his fiancee Sonia Bichara described as a legal purgatory -- unaware of why he was detained, where he might be sent, and how long he would be stuck in the controversial Florida facility.

Critics, meanwhile, have said detainees at the facility are forced to endure unsafe, unsanitary and inhumane living conditions and that Alligator Alcatraz runs afoul of environmental laws The remote detention facility is expected to cost Florida approximately $450 million annually to operate.