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Jamaican-born author and filmmaker Max-Arthur Mantle hopes a screen version of his gay coming-of-age novel — controversially titled "Batty Bwoy!" — will help make his homophobic home island LGBTQ-legal.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is apparently preparing to build a second immigration detention center, awarding at least one contract for what's labeled in state records as the "North Detention Facility."
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Rebecca González runs one of ICE's local domestic intelligence offices. She told NPR how her agents are tracking down immigrants in Puerto Rico to deliver on President Trump's mass deportation promise.
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More than 100 undocumented immigrants were arrested Thursday at Tallahassee construction sites, including at an apartment project near Florida State University, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.
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Haiti's desperate interim government is reportedly turning to foreign mercenaries to defeat the country's powerful gangs — but key Caribbean leaders say the route now should be dialogue.
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As allegations swirl around the facility, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami Thursday. She said she saw disturbing conditions and did not receive straight answers.
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A federal judge was considering whether Florida’s attorney general disobeyed her temporary order prohibiting the enforcement of a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter Florida.
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COMMENTARY It's easy to imagine President Trump adopting the gaslighting warfare used by Venezuela's dictator in Guyana to further his own hemispheric expansion schemes from Panama to Greenland.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital.
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The lawsuit centers on what are known as 287(g) agreements, which local governments can enter with the federal government to provide training and authority to local police to help enforce immigration laws.
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President Donald Trump's crackdown on Cuban immigration has riveted a community that strongly backed him twice. After record arrivals of Cuban migrants, Trump wants to deport recent arrivals from the island. In March, he revoked temporary humanitarian parole for about 300,000 Cubans.