Federal judge issues ruling blocking expansion of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A federal judge issued a preliminary judicial order on Thursday that prevents Florida from expanding the “Alcatraz” detainee that was built in central Florida Evergallides.

American provincial judges, Cathlein Williams, have made the official character to the temporary stop that she requested two weeks ago.

Witnesses continued to testify for several days in a hearing to determine whether the construction of the facility should stop until the case is determined.

The defenders argued that the expansion of the facility violated environmental laws.

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Environmental groups and the Miccosukee tribe said that more construction and operations in the facility should be stopped until the state officials and the unionists of environmental laws complied. A lawsuit has argued that the detention center threatens the environmentally sensitive wetlands that protect plants and animals and that it will reflect billions of dollars in environmental restoration.

Federal and federal governments lawyers claimed that building and operating the facility was under Florida, despite using the contract of federal detainees, which means that federal environmental law will not apply.

The judge found that the detention center was at least a joint partnership between the state and the federal government.

Williams said that she expects the number of detainees in the facility to decrease within 60 days through transfers to other facilities, and the fencing, lighting and generators should be removed. She said that the defendants in the state and the federal defendants cannot bring anyone other than the current detainees in the facility to the property.

The matter does not stop the amendments or reforms to the current facilities, which the judge said is “for the purpose of increasing safety or mitigating environmental risks or other risks on the site.”

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An air view of the migrant detention center, called “Alcatraz”, located at the training and transition airport site to Dade-Collier in Ochopee, Florida on July 7, 2025. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

She wrote that the initial gossip includes “those who are in a concert or participation with” Florida state, federal defendants, employees, agents, or employees.

State officials failed to explain the reason for the facility in the center of Florida Evergalides.

“What is clear, however, is that he is in their hurry to build the detention camp, the state did not think about alternative locations,” Williams said.

Florida officials criticized the ruling on Thursday.

“Only this week, a judge in the same boycott that Judge Williams refused to hear a case because the southern boycott in Florida was the improper place of the claims about the Alkatraz crocodile,” Jeremy Redfern, a spokesman for the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Florida, said in a statement to the Fox News. “Once again, it exceeds its authority, and we will resume this illegal decision.”

“The reform was” and “we knew that this judge did not give us a fair tremor.”

“We have completely expected a negative judgment,” he told Fox News. “We also learned that we will resume immediately and get this decision. So we will eventually be successful in this. We will not stop our solution. We will continue to do what we have to do to help the Trump administration remove illegal foreigners.

US President Donald Trump is touring the migrant detention center, called “Alkatraz”, and is located at the Training and Transmission Airport site in Oshobi, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Rynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump toured the facility last month, and suggested that it be used as a model for future facilities throughout the country to support his efforts to stop and deport migrants.

The detention center was built quickly about two months ago at the monochromatic training airport in the center of Everglades. It now holds nearly 500 detainees, but it is eventually designed to carry up to 3000 temporary tents.

Large white tents in the facility are characterized by Bunkbles, surrounded by chain connection cages. Dishes from worms complained about food, toilets that are not flowing, and floors that are overwhelmed by fecal waste and insects everywhere. Air air conditioners also suddenly closed at the heat of magic.

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According to what was reported, the detainees go to days without showering or receiving medicine, and they are allowed only to speak to lawyers and loved ones over the phone.

This report contributed to this report.