Plaintiffs in a case over the controversial immigrant detention center hastily erected on tribal land in the middle of the Everglades were celebrating Friday a judicial order for the facility to be shut down.

Though considered a win, there is some caution going forward as the case pitting environmental groups as well as the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida against the state is expected to be a protracted legal battle.

The state has already announced its intentions to appeal the judge’s ruling to shutter what the state named Alligator Alcatraz.

“When it comes to our homelands, there is no compromise, and so we will continue to fight,” said Curtis Osceola, the senior policy advisor to chairman of the Miccosukee tribe Talbert Cypress. “…This is not the first time the tribe has been in a fight l

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