Suppose you’ve built a 5,000-bed immigration detention center in the middle of one of the most delicate ecosystems in the United States. Surrounded by alligators, it provides little in the way of food and water. Also, you have offered no protection from Florida’s swampy humidity and mosquitoes.

In that case, you cannot act surprised when a federal judge tells you to knock it off. And yet here we are.

That is, so far, that’s the story of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump/DeSantis detention center for undocumented immigrants. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility in Florida’s Everglades must cease taking in new detainees and start shutting down operations within 60 days.

Federal Judge Orders Immediate Shutdown Of ‘Alligator Alca

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