Trump admin. moving detainees out of "Alligator Alcatraz" after judge orders facility operations to wind down

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: August 27, 2025 / 11:01 PM EDT


The Department of Homeland Security has begun moving detainees out of a controversial, state-run immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," days after a federal judge ruled that parts of the facility must be dismantled.

The detainees are being transferred to other immigration detention centers, DHS said in a statement Wednesday, blaming a court order from an "activist judge" that it called "another attempt to prevent the President from fulfilling the American people's mandate to remove the worst of the worst."

"DHS is complying with this order and moving detainees to other facilities. We will continue to fight tooth-and-nail to remove the worst of the worst from American streets," DHS said in a statement to CBS News. Earlier Wednesday, The Associated Press reported a top Florida emergency official had told a South Florida rabbi last week that Alligator Alcatraz would likely be empty "within a few days."

The facility, run by Florida's state government on a largely abandoned airstrip, is part of a wider push by the Trump administration to ramp up the number of immigration detention beds by partnering with Republican-led states willing to aid its escalating mass deportation efforts.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-admin-moving-detainees-alligator-alcatraz-judge-florida/

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[Lovie777]

1. Sending them to other hell hole countries?..............

still treating inhumanely.

[ToxMarz]

2. I bet someone close to Tump and DeSantis

made a shit load of taxpayer $$$ putting that shit hole in place. Mission accomplished!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. More

Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Literally a poster child of that!

(and then early on, the little food trucks and caterers who served the staff there as they were constructing the place and bringing people in, are now ruined due to their not putting on their "thinking caps" and considering the repercussions)

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Another reminder that Trump is not omnipotent

Also, anything that ruins Stephen Miller’s day is a good thing in my book.

[thesquanderer]

5. I kind of wonder why he is complying. I mean, what's stopping him from ignoring the court order?

Does he just want to occasionally present a veneer of respect for the law? Is he worried that, if he goes too far, and does too many impeachable offenses, he could actually eventually be impeached (if not by this congress, then by the next one)?

[travelingthrulife]

6. How much waste did this stupid, hateful idea cost us?

[Vinca]

7. I think I read somewhere it was $400 million. What a waste.

[Bayard]

8. Removing the worst of the worst,

Apparently includes young children, some with serious medical problems, and people who are here legally, obeying the law.

[Mysterian]

10. Good thing the fiscal responsible republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION

so they can play these games wasting money creating reality TV for their brainwashed zombie supporters.

The make-up splattered con man wasn't happy bankrupting three casinos. He has to bankrupt an entire nation, as the moron MAGAs cheer him on.