MIAMI — United States District Judge Kathleen Williams issued an injunction in the environmental case against "Alligator Alcatraz" late Thursday that will prevent the immigrant detention facility from increasing operations and inmates moving forward, as well as require the state of Florida and federal agencies to remove key aspects of the site within 60 days.

The first part of the 82-page ruling denied a motion for a preliminary injunction, but did enter an injunction that prohibits state and federal defendants from installing any additional lighting, or completing any paving, filling, excavating, or any other type of site expansion. Additionally, the order would prevent any state or federal agency from brining additional people to the site who were not already detained as of Thursday.

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