Or place sunglasses around the perimeter of Alligator Alcatraz. For the gators, of course.
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.
ridiculous
lol
Wonder how long it would take to get Cornhusker Alcatraz up and running...
Let’s write our Congress critters...
Will be intersting to see if this is fought - and by Trump/Noem or by De Santis.
Meanwhile: Nebraska will stand up the “Cornhusker Clink”:
Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner as President Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.
Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in rural McCook to house people awaiting deportation and being held for other immigration proceedings.
The new facility was dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink” last week by Rob Jeffreys, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. It can accommodate 200 people with plans to expand to 300. McCook is about 210 miles west of Lincoln, the state capital
This will fly about as far as all the other lawfare gambits.
The Miccosukee are just looking for a bribe, that is kind of SOP for some of the Indians these days. It is pretty much guaranteed that someone paid their council a substantial amount for the privilege of using their name in court, or made some grandiose promise to them.
HAHAHAHAHA...FAT CHANCE, KATHY !
“environmental concerns”
Insulting and cynical. We see right through this marxist hack. This has nothing to do with “the environment”.
DITZ.
10 billion pages of "environmental regulations" was simply cover for lawsuits and control over the population.
NO KINGS (or QUEENS).
Again, again, I ask why don’t the Trump lawyers tell the judge, “Okay, we will, once you show from the Constitution and Federal law where you have the authority to so order.”
Judge Kathleen M. Williams
Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse
400 North Miami Avenue
Room 11-3
Miami, Florida 33128
Directions Chambers
(305) 523-5540
Michael Savage was early with saying that too ...
Enemy Within
I miss him
That would be stupid AF
Why do so many say that? It’s just what democrats want him to do
Pam is 25-0 on beating these stupid Judges, and this one won’t last either
Or place sunglasses around the perimeter of Alligator Alcatraz. For the gators, of course.
If federal judges can order US Gov./state facilities to be
destroyed on a whim, nothing is safe from them.
Screw the ditz. She’s out of her lane.
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