Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit reported that US District Choose Kathleen Williams had ordered a South Florida Detention Facility affectionately nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to stop receiving new detainees and dismantle the power in 60 days.
“The Court docket ENTERS a Preliminary Injunction prohibiting the State and Federal Defendants and their officers, brokers, workers, attorneys, and any one that is in energetic live performance or participation with them from (1) putting in any extra industrial-style lighting (described by witnesses as “Sunbelt” lighting); or doing any paving, filling, excavating, or fencing; or doing some other website growth, together with inserting or erecting any extra buildings, tents, dormitories, or different residential or administrative services on the TNT website; and (2) bringing any extra individuals onto the TNT website who weren’t already being detained on the website on the time of this Order going into impact,” the choose wrote in an 82-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
The ability is positioned contained in the Massive Cypress Nationwide Protect in Ochopee, FL on the Dade-Collier Coaching and Transition Airport.
This morning, throughout a press convention with Florida Freeway Patrol to announce the outcomes of a serious immigration enforcement operation, Governor Ron DeSantis stated that the ruling “is just not going to discourage us.”
This was not one thing that was sudden. It is a choose that was not going to provide us a good shake. This was preordained. Very a lot an activist choose that’s making an attempt to do coverage from the bench. This isn’t going to discourage us. We’re going to proceed engaged on the deportations, advancing that mission. We knew that this might be one thing that may seemingly occur and we are going to reply accordingly.
We’re now on this place the place we’re main the state effort to assist the Trump administration truly implement the legislation and really take away these unlawful aliens from not simply Florida, however from our nation. That’s one thing that we didn’t have for 4 years and now that’s one thing that we’re completely on board with ensuring occurs going ahead.
Not solely did Governor DeSantis stand within the hole towards a federal choose making an attempt to dismantle a state facility, the Florida governor doubled down on the creation of a brand new facility within the northern portion of the state to be often known as the “Deportation Depot”:
I might additionally be aware that due to the success of Alligator Alcatraz, there’s demand for extra. So I did announce that we’re going to be opening one other facility proper exterior of Jacksonville in Baker County. We’ve referred to as that the “Deportation Depot.” So that’s one thing will be capable of maintain one other 2,000 and there’s an airport shut by. So you will have the processing and the elimination.
Through the announcement, Gov. DeSantis referred to as on the Republican-led Congress to defund sanctuary states like California, who issued a industrial drivers license to an unlawful alien who killed three Floridians when he made an unlawful U-turn on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County.
JUST IN – GOV. RON DESANTIS: “We’ve acquired a Republican Congress! All these guys that run once they ask you for his or her vote, ‘Oh, I’m going to safe the border, I’m going to be robust on immigration.’ Not one runs overtly on being weak on immigration, proper? As a result of they know they… pic.twitter.com/WBZ3hBvgQT
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 22, 2025
BREAKING: @GovRonDeSantis declares deportations will proceed at Alligator Alcatraz as they battle the ruling from an activist choose
“We’re not gonna be deterred. We’re completely in the fitting on this.”
“We’re gonna be opening one other facility…Deportation Depot.” pic.twitter.com/9YL6RKJyN3
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 22, 2025
Governor DeSantis Broadcasts Outcomes of Main Immigration Enforcement Operation https://t.co/A1oooXaW3D
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) August 22, 2025
