Within 60 days, the facility must also remove “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles,” which calls into question how it would operate.

This is a judge that was not going to give us a fair shake,” DeSantis said Friday. “This was preordained, very much an activist judge that is trying to do policy from the bench.”

A controversial immigration detention centre, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" and located deep within Florida 's Everglades, faces an uncertain future after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to halt its expansion and begin its closure.