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Trump's cherished Alligator Alcatraz ordered to be dismantled after stunning intervention from Florida Indian tribe

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump's beloved 'Alligator Alcatraz' has been ordered to be dismantled within the next 60 days and must stop taking in illegal migrants.

The bombshell decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Mary Williams

…previously in our archives as Kathleen M. Williams, she was appointed by President Obama in 2011, so the odds are good she’ll be overruled…

dealt a huge blow to the facility hyped by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over concerns from local native American tribes.

The judge said that she expected the population of the facility to decline within 60 days through the transferring of the detainees to other facilities, and once that happened, fencing, lighting and generators should be removed.

Opened in July, the detention center, located in the middle of the Florida Everglades, has been touted by the White House as the crown jewel of the administration's deportation policy.

Trump called it 'incredible' during a tour with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that same month.

Now, its become the latest example of the judiciary's fight with Trump over the issue that put him over the line more than any other in the 2024 election: taking out those migrants he called 'the worst of the worst.'

Murray wrote the state and federal defendants can't bring anyone other than those who are already being detained at the facility onto the property.

The case was brought to the court by the Miccosukee Native American Tribe

…apparently a federally recognized Native American tribe in Florida, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands related to the Seminoles. They’ve been protesting the jail since it opened at the beginning of July …

and environmental groups asking for it to take in no new migrants.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-22

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