The immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will be alligators-only soon, with internal emails suggesting that the last detainee will be gone within days.

The Associated Press reported on an email exchange in which a senior Florida official wrote, “We are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

Kevin Guthrie, the Executive Director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), sent the email in an exchange with South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman focused on chaplaincy services at the facility.

The revelation comes less than a week after a federal judge ordered officials to begin dismantling the facility, which has become a lightning rod of controversy over its two-month existence.

Constructed over the course of 8 days on an air strip

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