Alligator Alcatraz to be Emptied Out

(Tallahassee, FL) -- Alligator Alcatraz will soon be empty. That's what Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie recently wrote in an email to the South Florida Interfaith Community. According to ABC News, he writes "we are probably going to be down to zero individuals within a few days." A federal judge yesterday denied a request to keep the immigrant detention facility in the Everglades open. Federal and state officials issued that request after the same judge ruled last week the facility should close. The judge says the government couldn't prove the facility was necessary to ease overcrowding, and its claims that closing it would be costly were speculative.