A federal judge late Thursday ordered Florida’s “ Alligator Alcatraz ” immigration detention facility to be shut down within 60 days.

Detainees currently housed at the facility must be moved out within the time frame, as well as generators, fencing, and other construction materials.

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Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Federal District Court in Miami criticized the federal and state governments for not considering the facility’s environmental impacts .

Williams said the governments violated a federal law that requires an envi

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