Florida’s Attorney General is ready to make maximum use of the state’s pre-deportation prison for illegal immigrants.

Speaking to NewsNation , Attorney General James Uthmeier acknowledged that just a “few hundred” people were housed at Alligator Alcatraz ahead of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that halted a lower court order to wind down operations. But Uthmeier reckons that will change soon after the appellate “smackdown” that put Judge Kathleen Williams “back in her place.”

“This Judge would not allow new detainees to be sent there and obviously deportations were ongoing daily, but the place can hold thousands and we’ll fill it up quickly,” the state’s top legal officer said.

Indeed, the appeal brims with optimism. The majority opinion says the state of Fl

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