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

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

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s prized “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center must close, striking a blow to the administration’s mass deportation efforts. The center was thrown together in just eight days on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the Florida Everglades and has been rocked by allegations of abuse,

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

"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