A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s prized “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center must close, striking a hammer blow to the administration’s mass deportation efforts.

The center was thrown together in just eight days on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the Florida Everglades and has been rocked by allegations of abuse, including reports of assaults, groping, and inhumane living conditions.

MAGA loyalists like Governor Ron DeSantis have nevertheless reveled in the optics of housing migrants in the middle of alligator-infested swamplands, saying that if they escape, they’ve “got nowhere to go.”

Trump visited and praised the facility, encouraging other states to replicate it. The administration faces a shortage of detention centers to house people rounded up during th

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