Judge rules 'Alligator Alcatraz' can stay open for now, but no further detainees or construction are allowed
Within 60 days, the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles,” which calls into question how it would operate.

 

 

Aug. 22, 2025, 8:44 AM GMT+7 / Updated Aug. 22, 2025, 10:35 AM GMT+7

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami ruled Thursday that "Alligator Alcatraz," the contested migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, can remain operational for now but that it cannot be expanded and no additional detainees can be brought in.

 

U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams entered a preliminary injunction to prevent the installation of any additional industrial-style lighting and any site expansion. Her ruling further prevents “bringing any additional persons ... who were not already being detained at the site at the time of this order.”

 

The ruling was filed late Thursday, allowing the injunction that was requested over National Environmental Policy Act violations.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-alligator-alcatraz-florida-no-new-detainees-rcna224550

Figures as that judge is an Obama appointee.

Amazing that the judge cares so little about the welfare of the "future Americans" who are housed in the facility. She has no remorse ordering their sanitation and electrical facilities to be turned off.  But hey, which is more important- a good virtue signal, or the safety of the detainees?

5 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Figures as that judge is an Obama appointee.

Aileen Cannon is in the Ft. Pierce division.

From the NBC link:

 

“The state and federal government paved over 20 acres of open land, built a parking lot for 1,200 cars and 3,000 detainees, placed miles of fencing and high-intensity lighting on site and moved thousands of detainees and contractors onto land in the heart of the Big Cypress National Preserve, all in flagrant violation of environmental law,” said Paul Schwiep, counsel for Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity.

 

“We proved our case and are pleased that the court has issued a preliminary injunction against this travesty”

Just another inconvenience . 

 

These all get overturned on appeal. It's all the Left has left

2 minutes ago, KhaoHom said:

Just another inconvenience . 

 

These all get overturned on appeal. It's all the Left has left

The big hiccup here is whether the facility is subject to federal regulation even though it is operated on contract to state of Florida.

2 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

The big hiccup here is whether the facility is subject to federal regulation even though it is operated on contract to state of Florida.

 

So, make the change. Sign the paper. Done. 

 

It's not closing, no one going anywhere yawn. 

 

Another swing and miss

Is this where the 4 year old US citizen cancer patient that ICE bravely apprehended be confined. If he's still alive. 

1 minute ago, KhaoHom said:

 

So, make the change. Sign the paper. Done. 

 

It's not closing, no one going anywhere yawn. 

 

Another swing and miss

As per the late Scoop Nisker: If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

As per the late Scoop Nisker: If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

 

My days of news making are over

 

 It's not news. It's a boring little diversion created to slow down the MAGA steamroller. It's totally inept ...just like every impotent gay woke leftist

 

Real men simply cannot be attracted to the American Left. It's totally Incel,  gay, weak.. you see this daily. 

 

Go ahead and downvote me again lol

In her ruling, Judge Williams cited President Harry Truman’s dedication of Everglades National Park in 1947, in which he called it an “irreplaceable primitive area.” Since the jetport proposal was abandoned two decades later, she said, preserving the Everglades has been paramount for both Republican and Democratic policymakers.

 

“Since that time, every Florida governor, every Florida senator, and countless local and national political figures, including presidents, have publicly pledged their unequivocal support for the restoration, conservation and protection of the Everglades,” she wrote. “This order does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises.

56 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Within 60 days, the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles,” which calls into question how it would operate.

 

No different than any random homeless encampment on city streets.

34 minutes ago, amexpat said:

Is this where the 4 year old US citizen cancer patient that ICE bravely apprehended be confined. If he's still alive. 

 

“Rather than separate their families, ICE asked the mothers if they wanted to be removed with their children or if they wanted ICE to place the children with someone safe the parent designates,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “The parents in this instance made the determination to take their children with them back to Honduras.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-deport-us-citizen-kids-stage-4-cancer-honduras-rcna224501

“This is not our first fight for our land and rights. The Miccosukee Tribe remains steadfast in our commitment to protect our ancestral lands in Big Cypress from development as a permanent detention facility,” 

Seems that the land was stolen. A familiar story.

The now Alligator Alcatraz -- The Everglades Jetport was a planned supersonic airport in the Miami-Dade County (then Dade County) area intended to be the world's largest, located in a remote area bordering the Everglades.

 

The Everglades Jetport was conceived in the late 1960s as a futuristic hub for supersonic aircraft, including the development of the Boeing 2707 SST. 

 

The airport was planned to be significantly larger than JFK International Airport and include multiple runways to serve as an intercontinental supersonic air travel center. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade-Collier_Training_and_Transition_Airport

40 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

“Rather than separate their families, ICE asked the mothers if they wanted to be removed with their children or if they wanted ICE to place the children with someone safe the parent designates,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “The parents in this instance made the determination to take their children with them back to Honduras.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-deport-us-citizen-kids-stage-4-cancer-honduras-rcna224501

Or they could have just left them alone to continue the child's treatment and looked for other scapegoats for the sadistic administration. 

2 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

In her ruling, Judge Williams cited President Harry Truman’s dedication of Everglades National Park in 1947, in which he called it an “irreplaceable primitive area.” Since the jetport proposal was abandoned two decades later, she said, preserving the Everglades has been paramount for both Republican and Democratic policymakers.

 

“Since that time, every Florida governor, every Florida senator, and countless local and national political figures, including presidents, have publicly pledged their unequivocal support for the restoration, conservation and protection of the Everglades,” she wrote. “This order does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises.

 

Boo hoo.

 

It's a funcking swamp full of python and alligators. 

 

Decades ago they drained what they could and built houses.

 

Prison gotta go somewhere. Maybe next to your mom's house??👍

1 hour ago, amexpat said:

Or they could have just left them alone to continue the child's treatment and looked for other scapegoats for the sadistic administration. 

But everyone counts in order to increase the expulsion statistics. Many drops make a river....

1 hour ago, amexpat said:

Or they could have just left them alone to continue the child's treatment and looked for other scapegoats for the sadistic administration. 

 

You don't seem to understand the "illegal" part of "illegal immigrant."

 

There is no right to free medical treatment, or exceptions to laws for feelz, under any of the amendments to the constitution.  There is no get-out-of-ice card for your feelzies.

 

But you are more than welcome to start or donate to a "gogriftme" to pay living and treatment expenses.

 

No mention in any news articles about the father(s) of her three younglings, nor her PhD in rocket surgery, so I'll assume an unmarried baby factory living on welfare.

 

Buh-bye!

5 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

You don't seem to understand the "illegal" part of "illegal immigrant."

 

There is no right to free medical treatment, or exceptions to laws for feelz,

You don't seem to understand that immigrants cannot get medicare, medicaid, social security even though they pay taxes to support all that. 

 

1 hour ago, amexpat said:

You don't seem to understand that immigrants cannot get medicare, medicaid, social security even though they pay taxes to support all that. 

 

 

I mentioned no particular programs.  Federal benefits are more restricted, but state programs allow for more illegal parasites to drain the host.

 

Hospitals must provide emergency and stabilizing care, WIC benefits are available, free K-12 education, and state-funded programs including housing, food stamps, and healthcare.

THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS! 

16 hours ago, KhaoHom said:

Prison gotta go somewhere. Maybe next to your mom's house??👍

Maybe a place with electricity?

 

The site has no electricity, so everything is powered by generators, including portable air conditioners. Drinking and bathing water has to be trucked in, and sewage, trash and wastewater trucked out.

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

Maybe a place with electricity?

 

The site has no electricity, so everything is powered by generators, including portable air conditioners. Drinking and bathing water has to be trucked in, and sewage, trash and wastewater trucked out.

 

So what. Maybe they'll leave faster.

 

Maybe the impermanence allows the prison to be swept away if and when US can get the dangerous felons out.

 

Still better than their prisons in home countries.

 

Why the F you care about alien criminals that have committed additional felonies? 

 

It's just to bash Trump and success. 

 

You lot know well how to tear down but nothing about building up. 

 

Just another day in AN mental masturbation and gymnastics 

1 hour ago, KhaoHom said:

Why the F you care about alien criminals that have committed additional felonies? 

That is a different case. This one is strictly about environmental impact over the 'National Environmental Policy Act' as signed by Republican President Nixon.

 

The appeal on the judge's current ruling will be at the 11th Circuit based in Atlanta where 6 of the 12 judges are Trump first term appointees -- and in Trump's view of the world -- it is disrespectful for any judge he has appointed to rule against him.

 

As to your steamroller comment above, there are federal regulations as to what a President can do after declaring an emergency, just that to Trump, everything is an emergency when it allows him to do what he wants to do legal or not.

 

And the biggest challenge to that may be coming from conservative/libertarian interests, not namby-pamby liberal activists.

 

NY Times headline today:

 

Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say
In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.

What idiot came up with this idea?

 

Oh, right. Ron Desantis.

 

"One stop shop."

 

 

Trump is really out there. Listen to him ramble on as he explains he wants to reopen Alcatraz to hold our worst prisoners. Give me a break.

 

 

On 8/23/2025 at 7:07 AM, KhaoHom said:

 

So what. Maybe they'll leave faster.

 

Maybe the impermanence allows the prison to be swept away if and when US can get the dangerous felons out.

 

Still better than their prisons in home countries.

 

Why the F you care about alien criminals that have committed additional felonies? 

 

It's just to bash Trump and success. 

 

You lot know well how to tear down but nothing about building up. 

 

Just another day in AN mental masturbation and gymnastics 

Except that few of them are felons. Many have committed no crime except, maybe, being in country illegally.

Cruelty is the point. If feeds the miserable maga base and you seem to gobble it up.   

On 8/23/2025 at 7:57 AM, jerrymahoney said:

This one is strictly about environmental impact over the 'National Environmental Policy Act' as signed by Republican President Nixon.

 

The 11th circuit has ruled in the case ... no clue what the next legal step might be.  But for now the prison can remain open.