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| Federal judge orders construction pause at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center |
| 2025-08-09 |
| [NYPOST] Construction aimed at expanding Florida's remote migrant detention facility, dubbed ''Alligator Alcatraz,'' must stop for at least 14 days, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Kathleen M. Williams, an appointee of President Barack Obama, ordered the construction pause in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups arguing that federal agencies did not assess the potential impacts the facility may have on the wetlands and endangered species in the Florida Everglades. The facility can continue to operate and hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, but new filling, paving or infrastructure may not be added for the next two weeks, Williams said during a hearing. ''Today's ruling by an activist judge will have no impact on immigration enforcement in Florida,'' Alex Lanfranconi, a spokesman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, wrote on X. ''Alligator Alcatraz will remain operational, continuing to serve as a force multiplier to enhance deportation efforts.'' DeSantis, in an X post, noted that ''operations at Alligator Alcatraz are ongoing and deportations are continuing'' despite the order. Unable to connect to Postgres server! |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 2 weeks. That sounds like they are engaged in delays and fakery while avoiding Supreme Court rulings that permanently alter the framework of their scams. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-09 08:00 |
| #3 I remember the acquisition and building of Denver's international airport @1995. I think it's probably time to buy swampland west of Miami. South Florida was viewed as an ideal location for an intercontinental SST hub due to the limitation that such aircraft would have to fly over water. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-09 07:26 |
| #2 Alligator Alcatraz Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, United States. Fascinating to me - Begun in 1968 as the Everglades Jetport ... the airport was planned to be the largest airport in the world, covering 39 square miles (100 km2) with six runways, and connected to both central Miami and the Gulf of Mexico by an expressway and monorail line. The airport would have been five times the size of JFK Airport in New York. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-09 07:20 |
| #1 ...by several environmental groups arguing that federal agencies did not assess the potential impacts the facility may have on the wetlands and endangered species in the Florida Everglades. It's on a pre-existing airport. All that paperwork has already been done. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-08-09 07:08 |