Alligator Alcatraz will be emptied in a few days after an Obama-appointed judge ordered the facility dismantled.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, barred the Trump administration from sending new illegal alien detainees to Alligator Alcatraz. She also ordered the facility dismantled within 60 days.
Alligator Alcatraz is a detention center for illegal aliens, including rapists, murderers, and designated foreign terrorists.
The facility, opened last month at the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, is secured by Florida’s natural defenses—alligators, pythons, and the dense swampland of the Everglades.
Earlier this month, Judge Williams cited environmental violations in issuing a two-week pause on future construction:
“The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but workers will be barred from adding any new filling, paving or infrastructure for the next 14 days. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued the ruling during a hearing and said she will issue a written order later Thursday.”
On Thursday, Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from sending new illegal aliens to Alligator Alcatraz and ordered the facility dismantled.
“The Court ENTERS a Preliminary Injunction prohibiting the State and Federal Defendants and their officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and any person who is in active concert or participation with them from (1) installing any additional industrial-style lighting (described by witnesses as ‘Sunbelt’ lighting); or doing any paving, filling, excavating, or fencing; or doing any other site expansion, including placing or erecting any additional buildings, tents, dormitories, or other residential or administrative facilities on the TNT site; and (2) bringing any additional persons onto the TNT site who were not already being detained at the site at the time of this Order going into effect,” the judge wrote in an 82-page order.
The judge noted that the facility must be dismantled within 60 days.
“No later than sixty (60) days from the date of this order, and once the population attrition allows for safe implementation of this Order,40 the Defendants shall remove 1) the temporary fencing installed by Defendants to allow Tribe members access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp; 2) the Sunbelt lighting fixtures and any additional lighting installed for the use of the property as a detention facility; and 3) all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles that were installed to support this project,” the judge wrote.
As reported by CBS News:
The Department of Homeland Security has begun moving detainees out of a controversial, state-run immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” days after a federal judge ruled that parts of the facility must be dismantled.
The detainees are being transferred to other immigration detention centers, DHS said in a statement Wednesday, blaming a court order from an “activist judge” that it called “another attempt to prevent the President from fulfilling the American people’s mandate to remove the worst of the worst.”
“DHS is complying with this order and moving detainees to other facilities. We will continue to fight tooth-and-nail to remove the worst of the worst from American streets,” DHS said in a statement to CBS News.
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