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.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to fight after a federal judge on Thursday blocked the expansion of "Alligator Alcatraz," the immigrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades. Two weeks prior, U.S.