U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams landed a legal blow to the Trump administration Thursday night in a ruling on Alligator Alcatraz, banning site expansion and new detainees at the immigration detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

The judge is giving the administration 60 days to remove the fencing, gas, sewage, lighting, generators and "waste receptacles that were installed to support this project."

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) via email for additional comment Thursday night.

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The detention center has been a focal point of President Donald Trump 's second-term immigration platform, drawing praise from his supporters and a flood of criticism from Democrats , civil rights groups, environmenta

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