Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit reported that US District Judge Kathleen Williams had ordered a South Florida Detention Facility affectionately nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to cease receiving new detainees and dismantle the facility in 60 days.
“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,” the judge wrote in an 82-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
The facility is located inside the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, FL at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
This morning, during a press conference with Florida Highway Patrol to announce the results of a major immigration enforcement operation, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the ruling “is not going to deter us.”
This was not something that was unexpected. This is a judge that was not going to give us a fair shake. This was preordained. Very much an activist judge that is trying to do policy from the bench. This is not going to deter us. We are going to continue working on the deportations, advancing that mission. We knew that this would be something that would likely happen and we will respond accordingly.
We’re now in this position where we’re leading the state effort to help the Trump administration actually enforce the law and actually remove these illegal aliens from not just Florida, but from our country. That’s something that we didn’t have for four years and now that’s something that we’re absolutely on board with making sure happens going forward.
Not only did Governor DeSantis stand in the gap against a federal judge trying to dismantle a state facility, the Florida governor doubled down on the creation of a new facility in the northern portion of the state to be known as the “Deportation Depot”:
I would also note that because of the success of Alligator Alcatraz, there’s demand for more. So I did announce that we’re going to be opening another facility right outside of Jacksonville in Baker County. We’ve called that the “Deportation Depot.” So that is something will be able to hold another 2,000 and there’s an airport close by. So you have the processing and the removal.
During the announcement, Gov. DeSantis called on the Republican-led Congress to defund sanctuary states like California, who issued a commercial drivers license to an illegal alien who killed three Floridians when he made an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County.
JUST IN – GOV. RON DESANTIS: “We’ve got a Republican Congress! All these guys that run when they ask you for their vote, ‘Oh, I’m going to secure the border, I’m going to be tough on immigration.’ Not one runs openly on being weak on immigration, right? Because they know they… pic.twitter.com/WBZ3hBvgQT
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 22, 2025
BREAKING: @GovRonDeSantis announces deportations will continue at Alligator Alcatraz as they fight the ruling from an activist judge
“We’re not gonna be deterred. We’re totally in the right on this.”
“We are gonna be opening another facility…Deportation Depot.” pic.twitter.com/9YL6RKJyN3
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 22, 2025
Governor DeSantis Announces Results of Major Immigration Enforcement Operation https://t.co/A1oooXaW3D
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) August 22, 2025
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