Alligator Alcatraz, District Judge
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Within 60 days, the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles,” which calls into question how it would operate.
The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.
A US federal judge has ordered the effective closure of “Alligator Alcatraz”, a migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades. Its name reflects the local wildlife of alligators, crocodiles and pythons that live in the surrounding wetlands.
The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.