Operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' back on after appeals court halts judge's order
Environmental groups sued over the detention center, claiming it threatens sensitive wetlands that protect wildlife. By Landon Mion, Fox News, 9-5-25
Former acting ICE director Jonathan Fahey on an Obama-appointed federal judge blocking additional detainees from being sent to 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Secretary of State Marco Rubio pausing worker visas for truck drivers.
A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a lower court judge’s order to end operations indefinitely at the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.
The panel voted 2-1 to stay the judge’s order pending the outcome of an appeal, allowing the facility to continue holding migrant detainees – for now.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida from further expanding the detention center and ordering operations to dwindle by the end of October. The judge also ordered the state to transfer detainees to other facilities and to remove equipment and fencing.
The rulings came after a lawsuit brought by Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Miccosukee Tribe accused the state and federal officials of not following federal law requiring an environmental review for the detention center, which the groups argue threatens sensitive wetlands that have protected plants and animals.
The Department
of Homeland Security described
the ruling as "a win for the American people, the rule of law and common
sense."
"This lawsuit was never about the environmental impacts of turning a developed airport into a detention facility," DHS said in a statement. "It has and will always be about open-borders activists and judges trying to keep law enforcement from removing dangerous criminal aliens from our communities, full stop."
Florida officials said in court papers this week that it would resume accepting detainees at the facility if the request for a stay was granted.
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There are many other Maximum Security Prisons that can be put back in service to accommodate dangerous Criminals across the US.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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