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Two South Florida Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats on Thursday to push forward a bill in the House that would reinstate Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 350,000 Haitians in the United States.
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A lawyer for two of the detainees says the beating happened after they complained about not having phone access on April 2. The lawyer says the guards taunted and then attacked the detainees. Guards punched one of her clients in the face and broke another detainee's wrist. Phone service was restored the next day without explanation.
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Florida has one of the largest foreign-born populations in the U.S. For some, the fate of citizenship for their new children hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on President Trump’s effort to change more than a century-long practice.
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Since March 2025, at least 15 Florida public universities and colleges, including the University of Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville, have signed memorandums of agreement for their campus police departments to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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A nonprofit in Lake Worth Beach that supports refugees and immigrants must relocate children after announcing its closure following the Trump administration’s cuts to federal funding.
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Florida has become a model for how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, wants to conduct its enforcement: using quieter tactics and collaborating with local police. It comes after outrage and unrest in Minneapolis after federal agents shot and killed two protestors.
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Florida has the largest population of Haitian TPS holders. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on whether they can continue to live and work in the U.S. will impact the state's caretaking industry.
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A man recently released from Alligator Alcatraz said conditions at the immigrant detention center are tortuous and inhumane, and a waste of taxpayer resources.
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In the first seven months of President Donald Trump's second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention.
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Data show most migrants the Trump administration is deporting, including in South Florida, are non-criminals — and increasingly they're people who are being sent back to countries they haven't seen in decades.
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Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said his agency has been consistent on immigration enforcement as other Florida sheriffs made headlines expressing opinion that some enforcement has gone too far.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees. The death of Royer Perez-Jimenez on Monday is the 46th reported under ICE custody since the start of President Donald Trump's administration in January 2025, according to The Associated Press' count.