A federal judge in Miami said Monday he wants the DeSantis and Trump administrations to provide more information about the legal agreement governing the operations at Alligator Alcatraz as lawyers representing detainees question the very legality of the immigration detention site.

“We need to get to the bottom of the interplay between the federal and state authorities on who’s running this thing,” U.S. District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II said during a virtual status conference hearing in a lawsuit that centers on questions about legal access issues.

The judge’s call for more information comes as immigration attorneys say the Department of Homeland Security is leaving detainees in limbo at the state-run detention camp in the Everglades, and that detainees are being held at the site without

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