MIAMI — A week after a federal judge ordered the state and federal governments to begin shutting down their operations at Alligator Alcatraz, workers are being sent packing and detainees are being moved to other facilities.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a news conference in Orange County on Wednesday, said the Department of Homeland Security had “increased the pace of removals” from the detention facility. DeSantis distanced the state from the decisions about who is detained at the site, saying “the state does not determine who goes into the facility.”

“And so ultimately, it’s DHS’s decision, where they want to process and stage detainees, and it’s their decision about when they want to bring them out,” DeSantis said.

“But I think they’ve been having rapid removals from Alligator Alcatraz, and

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