A federal panel grants a temporary stay on a lower court’s order, siding with state and federal officials who argued the facility’s continued operation is in the public interest.

A federal appeals court panel has temporarily halted a lower court’s order to shut down the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, a facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The decision by the three-judge panel in Atlanta, issued Thursday, allows operations to continue at the site, which a federal judge had previously ordered to be wound down by the end of October.

The 2-1 decision by the panel to stay the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami was made “pending the outcome of an appeal” and was deemed to be in the “public interest.” This ruling marks a sig

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