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BumRushDaShow

(158,624 posts) Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:37 AM Aug 13

Judge to hear arguments on halting 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction over environmental concerns

Source: CNN US/AP

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2025, 8:07 AM ET

Miami AP — A federal judge is set to hear closing arguments Wednesday over whether to stop construction indefinitely at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as she considers whether it violates environmental laws.

US District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a two-week halt on new construction last Thursday as witnesses continued to testify in a hearing to determine whether construction should end until the ultimate resolution of the case.

The temporary order doesn’t include any restrictions on law enforcement or immigration enforcement activity at the center, which is currently holding hundreds of detainees. The center, which was quickly built two months ago at a lightly used, single-runway training airport, is designed to eventually hold up to 3,000 detainees in temporary tent structures.

The order temporarily barred the installation of any new industrial-style lighting, as well as any paving, filling, excavating, fencing or erecting additional buildings, tents, dormitories or other residential or administrative facilities. Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe want Williams to issue a preliminary injunction to halt operations and further construction, which they say threatens environmentally sensitive wetlands that are home to protected plants and animals and would reverse billions of dollars’ worth of environmental restoration.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/us/alligator-alcatraz-federal-judge-arguments

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Judge to hear arguments on halting 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction over environmental concerns (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 13 OP

Saw some reporting on Social Media they were emptying it out... FirstLight Aug 13 #1

They have deported 100 and moved some to other facilities. chowder66 Aug 13 #4

Cruel or unusual punishment. And without due process. Why don't they just put the constitution in a shredder? Walleye Aug 13 #2

Of course it violates Environmental Laws. maxsolomon Aug 13 #3

FirstLight

(15,676 posts)

1. Saw some reporting on Social Media they were emptying it out...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:50 AM

Aug 13

Moving everyone, not word to anyone/families/lawyers on where they were taking them. I don't know how true it is, has anyone reported on it?

Here's a video

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chowder66

(11,142 posts)

4. They have deported 100 and moved some to other facilities.

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:20 PM

Aug 13

Florida has begun deporting people from the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp, the state’s governor said, and deportations are expected to increase in the coming weeks.

At a press conference at the controversial facility, Ron DeSantis said “hundreds of illegals have been removed” from the facility. He later clarified that most of those were flown from Alligator Alcatraz to other detention facilities in the US. DeSantis, who has built a political career on his anti-immigration views, said 100 people had been deported from the US.

“I’m pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by [the Department of Homeland Security] have begun. The cadence is increasing,” DeSantis said. “We’ve already had a number of flights. … Hundreds of illegals have been removed from here,” De Santis said.

.....Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida division of emergency management, said the facility had grown, in less than a month, to have a current capacity of 2,000 people. That will increase to 4,000, he said.

more at link....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/alligator-alcatraz-detention-camp-removals-florida

Walleye

(42,044 posts)

2. Cruel or unusual punishment. And without due process. Why don't they just put the constitution in a shredder?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 12:34 PM

Aug 13

maxsolomon

(37,152 posts)

3. Of course it violates Environmental Laws.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 12:39 PM

Aug 13

AFAIK, they didn't even fill out a NEPA.

This is yet another "just try and stop us" project from this Kakistocracy. The Constitution is proving to be a joke yet again: the Executive Branch isn't going to police the Executive Branch.

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