Alligator Alcatraz, Florida Everglades
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A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration and Florida to effectively wind down operations at the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz."
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.
Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 21, saying the Trump administration should pack up Alligator Alcatraz and leave the Everglades.
The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.
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."
"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
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