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A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state scale down operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in her 82-page ruling, prohibited the state and federal governments from sending more immigrants to the detention center, built on an airstrip on the edge of the Big Cypress National Preserve.

She also told the state to remove all generators, gas, sewage, lighting, fencing and other waste items over the next nine weeks that helped transform the airstrip into a detention center, eventually rendering the site uninhabitable.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Wish granted, now theres 5 more.

Strike those down? They eat more taxpayer money and build 10 more. Each court case takes months, good luck.

[–] Deathgl0be@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Add this to the list of judge orders that won’t be followed. And jeez wasn’t that fbi director just saying no one was above the law ?

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 49 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was an environmental reason to hold pedophiles responsible.

[–] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Other than they make great compost?

[–] C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

nobody cares about the environment smh

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 57 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Kinda sad the reasoning is environmental instead of, you know, being immoral and inhumane. Either way, neither will register with the fascists.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact the first attempt at child welfare in the USA was via the ASPCA using livestock laws as though children were cattle. Sometimes the dumbest possible way is the hardest to fight against.

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago

I heard something similar where pregnancy was classified as a temporary disability for accommodations.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 71 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They've made their judgement. Now to enforce it.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 42 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yup, if this order doesn't have some serious teeth behind it, it's just going to be ignored.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 32 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

My presumption given this administration is that they will continue to do exactly what they're doing with zero regard for the law. They've acted with impunity for this long, why would some random judges decree suddenly stop them?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Judicial rulings have at least changed/delayed some things, but mostly they've just been speed bumps.

But it isn't nothing.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

I think you're right but I hope you're wrong.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And that'll be very bad precedent

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Then add it to the pile...

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it's nice to see that there's some kind of resistance, but no one thinks this ruling is actually going to be implemented.

They just delay, obfuscate, appeal, and eventually you get a good republican judge who will throw it out.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

It's worse than that. They just open a new one--funneling more money to private prison construction companies--and then let the legal system deal with that.

The legal system is incapable of doing much of anything against this Admin besides wack-a-mole.

[–] takenaps@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Plz let's see some follow through on this