Husband of judge who blocked 'Alligator Alcatraz' shutdown has ties to DeSantis

Husband of judge who blocked ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ shutdown has ties to DeSantis
Barbara Lagoa’s husband, Paul Huck, is an attorney whose law firm has business with the Florida government
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Thu 2 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT


An appeals court judge who blocked the closure of Ron DeSantis’s controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail is married to a powerful conservative attorney whose law firm has raked in millions of dollars from the Republican Florida governor’s administration, it has been revealed.

Barbara Lagoa authored the 11th circuit court of appeal’s 2-1 ruling last month that paused the Miami district judge Kathleen Williams’s earlier order that the harsh detention facility in the Florida Everglades must be wound down within 60 days.

Alligator Alcatraz is now fully operational again, with the Miami Herald reporting this month that hundreds of detainees held there by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) had “dropped off the grid”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/alligator-alcatraz-ron-desantis-paul-huck