Will the last person leaving “Alligator Alcatraz” please turn out the lights?

Let velvet darkness return to this rare “International Dark Sky” park, revealing the beauty of the Milky Way again. Let Florida panthers resume roaming by night in one of the last swaths of wilderness left to them. Let the shriek of generators be replaced by the soft sonar clicks of endangered bats as they feed at dusk on mosquitoes aplenty.

Above all, let a grim chapter in Everglades history end. This political stunt of a South Florida immigration detention center by Gov. Ron DeSantis, at the behest of President Donald Trump‘s administration, has been a failure by every measure.

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