Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, could be empty within days, according to an email shared with the Associated Press .

Although a federal judge recently gave Florida officials until October to shutter the facility, Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) executive director Kevin Guthrie wrote in an August 22 email to South Florida-based Rabbi Mario Rojzman that "we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days." (The email exchange was reportedly about providing chaplaincy services at the facility).

Rojzman and Guthrie's executive assistant, who sent the original email to Guthrie, confirmed the authenticity of the exchange to the Associated Press.

Neither Guthrie nor a spokesperson for FDE

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