Challenged by attorneys and pressed for answers by federal judges in Miami, the DeSantis and Trump administrations have released documents that they say establish the state’s legal authority to hold hundreds of immigrant detainees for the federal government at a detention camp deep in the Everglades.

A federal judge halted construction of Florida's Alligator Alcatraz on Thursday for 14 days while the court decides if the opening of the facility violated federal environmental laws and regulations.

A federal judge said work must stop for 14 days while she considered arguments that building and operating the immigration detention facility would harm the environment.