Friday, August 22, 2025

Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days

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.

Comments

Nice grift.
Now build another one, wait for it to get ordered shut.
Repeat, until the public treasury is empty.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 11:14 AM

Biden's Auto-pen had a better grift. They took the money and built nothing for four years.

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-22 11:24 AM

Right on time with deflection to Biden.

And a completely baseless deflection at that!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 11:28 AM

Rural internet, charging stations, build back better, any of this ring a bell?

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-22 11:52 AM

Nice deflection.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-22 11:54 AM

Sorry you lost your concentration camp, visitor. Must hurt.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-22 11:57 AM

Instead of a new clean and modern facility we could put illegals in the same substandard DC jail the Jan 6 patriots were housed.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-22 12:00 PM

THe J6 people had due process. Don't like the system? Change it. Legally.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-22 12:01 PM

a new clean and modern facility

arbeit macht frei

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-22 12:02 PM

Due process? Many spent years in solitary awaiting to find out with what they were being charged.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-22 12:16 PM

Yes. Due Process. They were charged, held, and went to trial.

Like I said, if you don't like our system when it 'hurts' your boys, then change it legally.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-22 12:19 PM

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