‘A resounding victory.’ ‘The fix was in.’ Politicos react to judge’s order to shut down Alligator Alcatraz

A federal Judge has issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of Alligator Alcatraz, an immigration detention center the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration built in the middle of the Everglades.

And reactions from Florida elected officials are … mixed.

The state government already filed a notice of appeal on Thursday, shortly after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams handed down her injunction to formalize a temporary hold she ordered two weeks ago. Among other things, she cited a decades-long effort to preserve the Everglades and noting that the state could use existing facilities elsewhere for the same purposes as Alligator Alcatraz.

Williams said she expects the population of the facility to decline within 60 days through the tran