(DC Pundit) – An Obama-appointed federal judge has once again stepped in to block President Donald Trump’s tough stance on illegal immigration. On Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that the Trump Administration could no longer bring new criminal illegal aliens to Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility. She went even further, ordering the entire site dismantled within 60 days. Yes, the one detention center built in the middle of swamps, alligators, and pythons, designed to keep the most dangerous offenders contained, is now scheduled for demolition.
The facility, which opened just last month under the direction of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was created for precisely the type of people Democrats pretend don’t exist: rapists, murderers, and even foreign terrorists who crossed our borders illegally. Instead of backing a secure location that actually keeps Americans safe, Judge Williams effectively sided with environmental complaints about the Everglades. Apparently, saving swamp grass now takes priority over saving American lives.
Earlier this month, the same judge had already delayed further construction at the site, citing environmental concerns. “The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but workers will be barred from adding any new filling, paving or infrastructure for the next 14 days,” she ruled at the time, according to the Associated Press. That temporary pause has now escalated into a sweeping injunction.
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In her latest 82-page order, Williams declared: “The Court ENTERS a Preliminary Injunction prohibiting the State and Federal Defendants and their officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and any person who is in active concert or participation with them from (1) installing any additional industrial-style lighting (described by witnesses as ‘Sunbelt’ lighting); or doing any paving, filling, excavating, or fencing; or doing any other site expansion, including placing or erecting any additional buildings, tents, dormitories, or other residential or administrative facilities on the TNT site; and (2) bringing any additional persons onto the TNT site who were not already being detained at the site at the time of this Order going into effect.”
And just to drive the point home, Williams ordered the camp dismantled. “No later than sixty (60) days from the date of this order, and once the population attrition allows for safe implementation of this Order, the Defendants shall remove 1) the temporary fencing installed by Defendants to allow Tribe members access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp; 2) the Sunbelt lighting fixtures and any additional lighting installed for the use of the property as a detention facility; and 3) all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles that were installed to support this project.”
So instead of dangerous illegals being locked away in the Everglades, the federal government — under Trump’s leadership — is now being forced to tear down the very facility built to house them. ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ was a symbol of real border security — strong, uncompromising, and backed by natural defenses only Florida could offer.
Yet thanks to judicial activism, that symbol may soon be bulldozed. Criminal illegals get another pass, and hardworking Americans are left to wonder why judges who swore an oath to uphold the law are instead bending over backward to protect people who broke it. If Democrats think dismantling ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ makes them look compassionate, they might want to explain their compassion to the next victim of one of these criminals they’re so eager to shield.
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