A federal judge has ordered a two-week halt to further construction at Florida’s migrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” siding with conservation groups that say state and federal agencies bypassed required environmental reviews. U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams issued the temporary restraining order from the bench in Miami after a day-and-a-half of testimony, barring additional lighting, paving, fencing or other work while she weighs the case. Environmental organizations and the Miccosukee Tribe argue the project threatens sensitive Everglades wetlands and endangered species. The judge’s order does not close the state-run center, which can continue holding detainees, but freezes expansion activity pending a fuller ruling. Opened on July 1, the roughly 3,000-bed compound sits on a remote former airstrip and is expected to cost about $450 million in its first year. Civil-rights groups have separately sued over conditions inside the facility, which Governor Ron DeSantis and the Department of Homeland Security present as a model for accelerating deportations. The legal setback lands as the Trump administration pushes to replicate the approach elsewhere. Earlier this week Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a federally backed 1,000-bed facility at Indiana’s Miami Correctional Center—dubbed the “Speedway Slammer”—funded under the recently enacted reconciliation bill to expand immigration detention capacity nationwide.