{"id":149176,"date":"2025-08-28T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149176"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:13:51","slug":"judge-orders-alligator-alcatraz-cleared-out-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/judge-orders-alligator-alcatraz-cleared-out-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz cleared out, dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a> August 28, 2025<\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A Florida judge has denied the Trump Administration\u2019s effort to keep \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d open.<\/p>\n

Miami U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, denied the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s request Wednesday for a stay of her order from last week\u00a0barring the facility from admitting new illegal alien detainees\u00a0and requiring parts of it to be dismantled\u00a0in 60 days.<\/p>\n

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Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams \/ social media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The facility in Florida\u2019s Everglades \u2014 which\u00a0holds up to 2,000 detainees\u00a0and had been in the process of expanding to hold as many as 4,000 \u2014 is in the process of being cleared out, a DHS source told The Post.<\/p>\n

A DHS official on Thursday said the agency was \u201ccomplying\u201d with the order and relocating detainees to other facilities, but blasted Williams as an \u201cactivist judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her order \u201cis yet another attempt to prevent the president from fulfilling the American people\u2019s mandate to remove the worst of the worst \u2014 including gang members, murderers, pedophiles, terrorists, and rapists from our country,\u201d The Post cited the DHS official as saying.<\/p>\n

Williams ruled the Trump Administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in bypassing the review process and ordered a halt to bringing in new detainees and the removal of fencing, lighting, gas hookups, generators, sewage and waste within 60 days.<\/p>\n

She previously told the feds\u00a0to stop construction\u00a0that would have expanded the facility.<\/p>\n

State officials said shutting down the facility for the time being would cost them $15 million to $20 million and that it would cost another $15 million to $20 million to reinstall structures if they ultimately are allowed to reopen the facility. They also said that the Florida Division of Emergency Management will lose most of the value of the $218 million it has invested in making the training airport suitable for a detention center.<\/p>\n

Florida Republican Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0\u2019 administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed \u201cDeportation Depot\u201d at a state prison in north Florida.<\/p>\n

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by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News August 28, 2025 A Florida judge has denied the Trump Administration\u2019s effort to keep \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d open. Miami U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, denied the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s request Wednesday for a stay of her order from last week\u00a0barring the facility from admitting new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-u-s-politics","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149284,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149176\/revisions\/149284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}