Gisela Salomon | Associated Press

Since Feb. 3, the Trump administration ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S.

The Trump administration's decision will affect thousands of legal immigrants in South Florida who qualified for the 'humanitarian parole" program created by the administration of former President Joe Biden.

Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government's online locator for detainees.

The lawsuit seeks to reinstate humanitarian parole programs that allowed in 875,000 migrants from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who have legal U.S. residents as sponsors.

Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have changed their travel patterns and are making plans for advocates to have power of attorney to care for their children if they are deported. Homestead's Nora Sandigo has received hundreds of calls from immigrant parents across the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months. Florida is home to nearly 300,000 TPS holders, the largest number in the nation.

President Joe Biden let in half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans using a tool known as humanitarian parole. President-elect Donald Trump appears certain to dismantle it, saying during his campaign that he would end the ‘outrageous abuse of parole.’

The National Hurricane Center says tropical storm-force winds from Hurricane Milton are just off the western coast of Florida.

A former career U.S. diplomat has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba.

A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

Mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits. However, their efforts and existing laws have exposed tensions among immigrants who have been in the country for years.

One of the strictest in the nation, the law criminalized transporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status into the state, invalidated any U.S. government identification they might have and blocked local governments from providing them with ID cards.