Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito that under the TPS law, the president has unreviewable authority to end the program, without intervention from the courts.

Media reports indicated the detention site would be sold to the National Park Service.

Despite news that the last detainee is gone from the immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, the environmental groups that sued to shut it down gathered online Wednesday to make it known that they are nowhere near done.

Trump’s immigration crackdown has met with fierce resistance in Democratic-led sanctuary cities, where police are forbidden from assisting and many locals view the masked federal agents as an invading force. That hasn’t been the case in Republican-led Florida, though, where about 350 state and local agencies have signed on to take part in the crackdown. Although Florida immigration arrests have more than tripled during Trump's second term, the surge has largely flown under the public’s radar, as many start as run-of-the-mill police traffic stops, the public seems more supportive of the initiative, and participating state and local agencies are roundly rejecting requests for arrest records and body camera video at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost visited the detention center on Tuesday. He said based on what he saw, he believes the center is winding down.

A lawsuit filed today by the Center for Biological Diversity against the Florida Division of Emergency Management targets the immigration detention center in the Everglades in eastern Collier County and cites what it terms as "substantial, unpermitted pollution from diesel generators and other air-polluting equipment that have supported the facility since operations began in June 2025."

An expected $58.2 million initial payment is a fraction of the state’s spending on the Everglades facility.

Florida’s controversial immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz" could shut down as early as next month.

A report in the New York Times said that federal and state officials are considering closing the Everglades detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz. The Associated Press reported that Gov. DeSantis said site always was meant as "temporary."

A new directive from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, issued in secrecy, bars local law enforcement agencies across Florida from answering questions about their role in immigration enforcement, raising concerns about transparency and whether public records are being lawfully observed.