A federal judge in Miami late on Thursday ordered the closure of the Trump administration’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail within 60 days, and ruled that no more detainees were to be brought to the facility while it was being wound down.
The shock ruling by district court judge Kathleen Williams builds on a temporary restraining order she issued two weeks ago halting further construction work at the remote tented camp, which has attracted waves of criticism for harsh conditions, abuse of detainees and denial of due process as they await deportation.
In her 82-page order, published in the US district court’s southern district of Florida on Friday, Williams determined the facility was causing severe and irreparable damage to the fragile Florida Everglades.
Williams determined the facility was causing severe and irreparable damage to the fragile Florida Everglades
Next up, Trump will literally “drain the swamp” and claim there never was a Florida Everglades.
They tried that for years, multiple large attempts failed and caused flooding and sunk shit tons of money putting up dams. And then it finally got named a national park/preserve.
Marjory Douglas faught those fuckers for years. 108 years she somehow lived, but her work (and some others) ended up protecting a lot.
Ernest Coe was the other main name you’ll hear about Everglades preservation.
This isn’t going to work. It’s just not realistic that these fascist Nazis are going to let their favorite Death-Camp get shut down. Appeals courts, Supreme courts, or other captured and perverted tentacles of this Nazi Regime will step in to keep the place running.
