The Court of Appeal authorizes the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center to resume operations

On Thursday, a federal court of appeal interrupted an order as a judge of the lower court to end operations indefinitely at the immigration detention center “Alligator Alcatraz” built in the Everglades of Florida.

The panel voted 2-1 to suspend the judge’s order pending the outcome of a call, allowing the installation to continue to hold migrant detainees – for the moment.

Last month, US District Judge Kathleen Williams published a preliminary injunction preventing Florida from further developing the detention center and ordered operations to decrease by the end of October. The judge also ordered the State to transfer detainees to other facilities and withdraw the equipment and fences.

The federal judge blocks Florida from the new expansion of the ease of immigration detention of “the Alligator Alcatraz”

The decisions made after a trial brought by friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Miccosukee tribe accused the State and federal officials of not following the federal law requiring an environmental examination for the detention center, which, according to the groups, threatens of sensitive wetlands which have protected plants and animals.

“It is a heartbreaking blow for the American Everglades and all the living creatures there, but the case is not even close to ending,” said Elise Bennett, main lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, in a press release.

In June, the administration of Governor Ron Desantis quickly moved to build the facilities at a unique training airport in the middle of the Everglades to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to hold and expel migrants. Desantis said the location of the installation was intended to dissuade the escape plans.

A federal court of appeal interrupted the ordinance of a lower court judge to end operations indefinitely at the immigration detention center “Alligator Alcatraz”. (Images Alon Skuy / Getty)

Trump visited the installation in July and suggested that it could be used as a model for future installations across the country to support its mass expulsion plan.

Reacting to Thursday’s decision, Desantis said that the claims that the installation would soon be bumped was false.

“We said we were going to fight this. We said that the mission would continue. So, Alligator Alcatraz is in fact, as we have always said, open to business,” he said on social networks.

The proceedings threaten to upset the operations of alligator Alcatraz

President Donald Trump visited the installation in July and suggested that it could be used as a model for future facilities across the country to support his mass expulsion plan. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

The Ministry of Internal Security described the decision as “a victory for the American people, the rule of law and common sense”.

“This trial has never concerned the environmental impacts of the transformation of an airport developed into a detention center,” DHS said in a statement. “He has and will still be on the activists and the judges of the open borders who will try to prevent the application of the law from withdrawing criminal foreigners from our communities, a complete judgment.”

Florida officials declared in court documents this week that this would take up the acceptance of prisoners in the establishment if the suspension request was granted.

Although the applicants say that the case is far from over, saying that the installation will ultimately be closed.

The applicants in the trial against “Alligator Alcatraz” say that the case is far from over, saying that the installation will ultimately be closed. (Getty Images)

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“In the meantime, if the administrations Desantis and Trump choose to crawl operations at the detention center, they will simply throw a lot of money after this establishment not considered – which will cause damage to the Everglades – will ultimately be closed,” said Eve Samples, executive director of the friends of the Everglades, in a declaration.

The complainants argued that, because Florida financed the project itself and that the federal government has not directly contributed, “Alligator Alcatraz” is not part of the revision of the federal environment, even if it is home to federal detainees.

In Thursday’s decision, the Court of Appeal largely accepted these complaints.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.