Nearly two months after the hasty and controversial birth of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a federal judge has slammed the brakes on the operation, ruling that no more detainees can be housed at the remote migrant detention camp deep in the marshy wetlands of the Everglades.

The state of Florida filed a notice of appeal of a federal judge’s preliminary injunction that would close within 60 days the state’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades known

A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," ordering that its operations wind down within two months.