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BREAKING: Obama Judge BLOCKS New Detainees, Orders Alligator Alcatraz to Be TORN DOWN!
100 Percent Fed Up ^ | August 22, 2025 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; alligatoralcatraz; democrattruth; econuts; florida; interference; judgewatch; judicialcoup; judicialmisconduct; judicialsedition; judicialtreason; kathleenmwilliams; kathleenwilliams; kathywilliams; leftists; miccosukee; miccosukeetribe; nepa; obamaappointees; obamastooge; obstruction; stoogewatch; subversion

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1 posted on 08/22/2025 9:17:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Put her/him there.


2 posted on 08/22/2025 9:17:41 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Red Badger

Fine. Remand the detainees into her care.


3 posted on 08/22/2025 9:18:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

communist ideologue “judges” create the widespread contempt of the law in America today

These “enemy within” need to be retired ASAP


4 posted on 08/22/2025 9:20:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, no


5 posted on 08/22/2025 9:22:00 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

This is exactly what Trump was referring to when he stated “The enemy within” needs to be defeated.


6 posted on 08/22/2025 9:22:13 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger
an Obama appointee

They misspelled "Benedict Obama stooge"...

7 posted on 08/22/2025 9:22:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: crusty old prospector

8 posted on 08/22/2025 9:22:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger
Judge Kathleen Williams is citing “environmental concerns” as the reason behind her ruling.

Oh Geez

9 posted on 08/22/2025 9:24:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess, another judge from the kids table.


10 posted on 08/22/2025 9:24:16 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Red Badger

So let her enforce it.


11 posted on 08/22/2025 9:24:38 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: Red Badger

OK, where is the “Republican” Congress?! They could quickly amend National Environmental Policy Act to exempt Alligator Alcatraz. Nothing. Not even crickets.


12 posted on 08/22/2025 9:24:42 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: 1Old Pro

Their carbon footprint is too large.


13 posted on 08/22/2025 9:25:18 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Red Badger; Lazamataz
Laz, do us all a favor...


14 posted on 08/22/2025 9:28:06 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Red Badger

Be like the Democrats and ignore the judge, what’s he going to do?


15 posted on 08/22/2025 9:28:45 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: Red Badger

Easy solution! Take over every Federal judge’s chambers in America, house the illegals there.


16 posted on 08/22/2025 9:31:01 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Red Badger

Ignore, carry on.


17 posted on 08/22/2025 9:32:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: Red Badger

How many divisions does the judge command?


18 posted on 08/22/2025 9:33:09 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger

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.


19 posted on 08/22/2025 9:34:26 AM PDT by KingofZion
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To: Red Badger

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.


20 posted on 08/22/2025 9:37:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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