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.

Deep in the Everglades, in a patch of swamp surrounded by snakes, alligators and relentless mosquitos, Florida has opened a makeshift detention center that critics say is unlike anything the

The DeSantis administration quickly filed an appeal following a Thursday order to dismantle parts of Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention facility near the Florida Everglades.