Federal Ruling against Alligator Alcatraz

[jerrymahoney]

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

[bkk6060]

Figures as that judge is an Obama appointee.

[Hanaguma]

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?

[jerrymahoney]

5 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Figures as that judge is an Obama appointee.

Aileen Cannon is in the Ft. Pierce division.

[jerrymahoney]

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”

[KhaoHom]

Just another inconvenience . 

 

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

[jerrymahoney]

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.

[KhaoHom]

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

[amexpat]

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

[jerrymahoney]

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.

[KhaoHom]

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

[jerrymahoney]

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.

[NoDisplayName]

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.

[NoDisplayName]

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

[Purdey]

“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.