Ron DeSantis, Alcatraz
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After a federal judge's ruling will likely limit operations at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center, executive director of "Friends of the Everglades" Eve Samples discusses what may come next.
Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 21, saying the Trump administration should pack up Alligator Alcatraz and leave the Everglades.
Environmental groups that sued to halt the construction of Alligator Alcatraz say they are prepared to take their challenge all the way to the Supreme Court.
A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration and Florida to effectively wind down operations at the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz."
The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.
"Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases," said one immigration attorney
A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."