Judge orders Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail site to stop bringing detainees and to close

By Churchill Ndonwie, Miami Herald (TNS)

A federal judge on Thursday barred Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump’s administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded Florida close out operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in her 82-page ruling, prohibited the state and federal governments from bringing additional detainees to the detention center in the Everglades , which has drawn mass protests. She also stopped any expansion of the detention facility, a former airport, including adding industrial lighting or erecting any buildings, such as tents or dormitories.

Though her order does not prohibit the state from making repairs to the site, the most striking aspect of the o