Florida's Appeal of Alligator Alcatraz Ruling Claims Massive Errors and Bias by the Obama Judge
By streiff | 5:00 PM on August 26, 2025
Friday, a federal judge in Florida ordered the famed "Alligator Alcatraz" detention and deportation center for illegal aliens closed and dismantled. My colleague Brad Slager had that story:
Judge Kathleen Williams, late Thursday evening in a Miami courtroom, issued a temporary restraining order requiring the state to refrain from bringing in any additional detainees, and declared that in 60 days the facility needs to be cleared of all of those being held, and the process of hauling out the installed infrastructure begins to take place.
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Williams, a Barack Obama appointee, stated that an environmental impact assessment was to have been conducted prior to installing the new structures and other operational needs. She noted that no such advance research was conducted by the defendants, although the state did argue with a reference to a “Preliminary Ecological Assessment” that was conducted in late July.
While that study alluded to several species possibly endangered, the state asserted that installations around the facility were erected to shield those in the surrounding area.
This order followed a temporary restraining order issued by the same judge on August 7.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/floridas-appeal-alligator-alcatraz-ruling-claims-massive-errors-bias-o-432771/
