TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the federal government fight a judge’s order to shutter the facility — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — by late October.

That’s according to an email exchange shared with The Associated Press.

South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman says he sent an email to Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie to discuss providing chaplaincy services at the facility. In the response he says he received on Aug. 22, Guthrie is quoted as saying: “We are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

Rojzman, and the executive assistant wh

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