The Miccosukee Tribe makes its home in the Everglades, where a tribal village sits only a few miles from the federal immigration detention center called Alligator Alcatraz . Residents have for weeks lived with vehicles coming and going around the clock, stadium lights illuminating the once-dark nighttime sky, and the facility restricting access to the game they rely upon for food.

That is no longer the case.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to stop sending detainees to the facility and begin dismantling it within 60 days. In making her ruling, Judge Kathleen Williams sided with the tribe and environmentalists who argued that state and federal officials violated a federal law that requires an environmental review before proceeding with any federal construction project. Th

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