Florida taxpayers may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida taxpayers could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz .”

The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.