Florida immigrant advocates and activists celebrated Thursday night’s federal court decision to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz, the contentious immigration detention center erected in the Everglades.

“The ruling highlights what community organizations already knew: in their haste to build the nation’s first state-run detention facility, the DeSantis Administration refused to consider the environmental impacts of the camp on sacred indigenous land,” said the groups in a joint statement issued Friday.

“We will continue to push for the permanent closure of the Everglades Concentration Camp and denounce any new detention centers,” they said.

A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center, ordering that its operations wind down within two months.

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