A federal judge has ordered Florida and the Trump administration to wind down operations at the immigration detention site known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, citing potential environmental damage. In an 82-page preliminary injunction issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams barred officials from transferring any additional detainees to the facility and set a 60-day deadline for clearing it out. The ruling prohibits further construction or expansion at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport site and directs the removal of temporary fencing, industrial lighting, generators, sewage systems and other waste once the detainee population declines. While the center may continue to hold its current occupants during the transition period, authorities must begin dismantling auxiliary infrastructure immediately. Judge Williams found that the state and federal governments violated the National Environmental Policy Act by bypassing an environmental review before erecting the facility. Her decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by Friends of the Everglades, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and other advocates, who warned that the project threatens sensitive wetlands and endangered species in the surrounding ecosystem. The center, opened last month by Governor Ron DeSantis to house federal immigration detainees, had been central to the administration’s broader immigration crackdown. Florida officials have signaled they will appeal the injunction, but unless a higher court intervenes, the order requires the facility to be largely dismantled and its detainees relocated by late October.