A federal judge has ordered the remote detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” to stop taking detainees and remove infrastructure added to the original airport site.

The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.

Calling it "exactly the kind of disaster that Congress took pains to avoid," attorneys for immigrants held at a detention center in the Everglades filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration lacks the authority to run the facility.

Two separate lawsuits could ensure detainees have proper access to their legal counsel or shut down operations at the controversial makeshift immigrant detention center in Florida’s swampy Everglades.