Within 60 days, the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles,” which calls into question how it would operate.

A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration and Florida to effectively wind down operations at the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz."

Judge Williams issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 21, saying the Trump administration should pack up Alligator Alcatraz and leave the Everglades.

The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.

The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

A month into his detention at Alligator Alcatraz, Daniel Ortiz Piñeda faced a stark choice: continue his legal fight for asylum or give it up to hopefully put an end to his extended stay at the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades.

"Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases," said one immigration attorney