{"id":4252,"date":"2025-08-24T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:37:09","slug":"desantis-defies-obama-judge-over-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Defies Obama Judge Over \u2018Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Judge Orders Facility Closed<\/strong><br>A federal judge ordered the controversial Florida detention center, nicknamed \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d to stop accepting new detainees and be dismantled within 60 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Kathleen Williams cited environmental harm, writing the site \u201ccreates irreparable harm in the form of habitat loss and increased mortality to endangered species,\u201d including the Florida panther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DeSantis Pushes Back<\/strong><br>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to resist the order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is not going to deter us. We are going to continue working on the deportations, advancing that mission,\u201d he said, calling the judge \u201can activist judge that is trying to do policy from the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Support from Officials<\/strong><br>Florida officials criticized the ruling. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called it \u201canother attempt to prevent the President from fulfilling the American people\u2019s mandate,\u201d while Attorney General James Uthmeier said, \u201cAlligator Alcatraz remains operational, and we will not stop in our mission to detain, deport, and deliver for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Expansion Plans<\/strong><br>DeSantis announced a second facility, the \u201cDeportation Depot,\u201d near Jacksonville, saying, \u201cBecause of the success of Alligator Alcatraz, there\u2019s demand for more\u2026 We\u2019re absolutely on board with making sure [deportations] happen going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Orders Facility ClosedA federal judge ordered the controversial Florida detention center, nicknamed \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d to stop accepting new detainees and be dismantled within 60 days. Judge Kathleen Williams cited environmental harm, writing the site \u201ccreates irreparable harm in the form of habitat loss and increased mortality to endangered species,\u201d including the Florida panther. DeSantis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}