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Posted on 08/22/2025 9:17:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
The rogue judicial branch continues to overstep its bounds.
In the latest example yet, a federal judge just ordered the effective shutdown of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention facility.
Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, ruled that no new illegal alien detainees can be brought in to Alligator Alcatraz.
In addition, she has barred further construction and given orders for many parts of the facility to be dismantled within 60 days.
Here are the details:
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. https://t.co/Brv93QdDO7 pic.twitter.com/gUXUtLblpX— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 22, 2025
Judge Kathleen Williams is citing “environmental concerns” as the reason behind her ruling.
While technically, the facility can remain in operation, the details of her ruling would make that pretty much impossible.
How can a detention facility remain in operation when you can’t take in anymore illegal immigrants and have to shut down key utilities like gas, sewage, and lighting?
NBC News reported:
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.
Within 60 days, “and once the population attrition allows for safe implementation of this Order,” the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles that were installed to support this project,” the 82-page ruling said.
It must also remove additional lighting that was installed for the detention facility. Light pollution was a hot topic during the hearings this month.
It’s unclear how the facility will remain operational if those resources are removed.
The government must also remove temporary fencing installed to allow Native American tribe members access to the site consistent with the access they had before the facility was erected.
But, it’s not over yet.
The Trump administration will appeal the ruling and hopefully keep Alligator Alcatraz up and running.
More from The New York Times:
The decision is a major legal setback for the detention center, the nation’s first state-run facility for federal immigration detainees, which has faced several lawsuits and numerous complaints about poor conditions and other problems. The state immediately filed a notice saying that it intended to appeal.
Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Federal District Court in Miami found that the state and federal governments had violated a federal law that requires an environmental review before any major federal construction project. Judge Williams partly granted a preliminary injunction sought by environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe, whose members live in the area. The detention center is surrounded by protected lands that form part of the sensitive Everglades ecological system.
The detention center presents risks to wetlands and to communities that depend on the Everglades for their water supply, including the Miccosukee, Judge Williams found.
“The project creates irreparable harm in the form of habitat loss and increased mortality to endangered species in the area,” she wrote.
Her ruling is preliminary, as the case will continue to be litigated. The state is expected to ask that the ruling be stayed, or kept from taking effect, as it pursues its appeal.
The Trump administration had argued that a review under the National Environmental Policy Act did not apply because while the center houses federal immigration detainees, it is run by the state. At the same time, the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that its authority to operate the detention center came from an agreement with the federal government delegating some immigration enforcement powers to Florida.
This rogue judge’s outrageous ruling needs to be overturned immediately.
The lengths that leftists will go to in order to protect criminal illegal aliens is astounding.
If only they would fight this hard for the American people…
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.
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Put her/him there.
Fine. Remand the detainees into her care.
communist ideologue “judges” create the widespread contempt of the law in America today
These “enemy within” need to be retired ASAP
Yeah, no
This is exactly what Trump was referring to when he stated “The enemy within” needs to be defeated.
They misspelled "Benedict Obama stooge"...
Oh Geez
Let me guess, another judge from the kids table.
So let her enforce it.
OK, where is the “Republican” Congress?! They could quickly amend National Environmental Policy Act to exempt Alligator Alcatraz. Nothing. Not even crickets.
Their carbon footprint is too large.
Be like the Democrats and ignore the judge, what’s he going to do?
Easy solution! Take over every Federal judge’s chambers in America, house the illegals there.
Ignore, carry on.
How many divisions does the judge command?
this will certainly be overturned on appeal. i cannot think of another case where courts ordered a prison to shut down due to environmental concerns. For sure they have oversight for some prisons due to mismanagement of security, healthcare, corruption etc. But a full shutdown and dismantling? Absurd.
Use red filters over the lights....no light pollution, then.
No sea turtles down there and I don’t think there are lightning bugs, either, in water-saturated soil. So there are no species negatively impacted.
In fact, shutting off the lights would negatively impact frogs, who have no doubt discovered all those lights draw in a lot of insect food.
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