Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees
A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state scale down operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in her 82-page ruling, prohibited the state and federal governments from sending more immigrants to the detention center, built on an airstrip on the edge of the Big Cypress National Preserve.
She also told the state to remove all generators, gas, sewage, lighting, fencing and other waste items over the next nine weeks that helped transform the airstrip into a detention center, eventually rendering the site uninhabitable.
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They've made their judgement. Now to enforce it.
Yup, if this order doesn't have some serious teeth behind it, it's just going to be ignored.
My presumption given this administration is that they will continue to do exactly what they're doing with zero regard for the law. They've acted with impunity for this long, why would some random judges decree suddenly stop them?
I think you're right but I hope you're wrong.
Judicial rulings have at least changed/delayed some things, but mostly they've just been speed bumps.
But it isn't nothing.
And that'll be very bad precedent
We're way way past that
Then add it to the pile...
Kinda sad the reasoning is environmental instead of, you know, being immoral and inhumane. Either way, neither will register with the fascists.
Fun fact the first attempt at child welfare in the USA was via the ASPCA using livestock laws as though children were cattle. Sometimes the dumbest possible way is the hardest to fight against.
I heard something similar where pregnancy was classified as a temporary disability for accommodations.
If only there was an environmental reason to hold pedophiles responsible.
Other than they make great compost?
nobody cares about the environment smh
I guess it's nice to see that there's some kind of resistance, but no one thinks this ruling is actually going to be implemented.
They just delay, obfuscate, appeal, and eventually you get a good republican judge who will throw it out.
It's worse than that. They just open a new one--funneling more money to private prison construction companies--and then let the legal system deal with that.
The legal system is incapable of doing much of anything against this Admin besides wack-a-mole.
Add this to the list of judge orders that won’t be followed. And jeez wasn’t that fbi director just saying no one was above the law ?
Plz let's see some follow through on this
Wish granted, now theres 5 more.
Strike those down? They eat more taxpayer money and build 10 more. Each court case takes months, good luck.
This should make me feel optimistic about the future of America but.....a hostile takeover is currently underway