A federal appeals court has blocked a lower court’s order to shutter the “ Alligator Alcatraz ” detention center over environmental concerns, in a win for the Trump administration and Florida officials.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled 2-1 on Thursday in favor of halting a preliminary injunction imposed by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams last month, which had ordered the facility housing illegal immigrants to be closed within 60 days. Judge Barbara Lagoa, an appointee of President Donald Trump , wrote for the majority that the facts of the case warrant pausing Williams’s order, finding that the state and federal governments would be irreparably harmed by having to shutter the facility in the interim.

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