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Missouri State Highway Patrol via AP/Missouri State Highway PatrolImmigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that's unprecedented in the agency's two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight. An Associated Press investigation finds that at least 10 ICE detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 and ordered ICE to increase arrests and deportations. -
Courtesy/Office of U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-OrlandoFollowing a state-approved visit Tuesday to Alligator Alcatraz, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democrat from Orlando, said he wants state and federal officials to disclose where remaining immigrant detainees are being transferred amid reported plans to permanently close the detention facility.
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A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the state. -
It’s the first installment of the $608 million FEMA grant Florida’s been waiting for since the detention center opened last summer. -
Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit. The center, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," could close in the next month or two. A federal appellate court recently allowed it to remain open but sent the case back to a lower court. -
Vendors working for the controversial immigration detention facility in the Everglades were reportedly told that it would shut down next month, according to the New York Times and CBS News. -
If enacted, the bill would override Florida's current law requiring counties to agree to house people detained on a federal immigration hold. -
In total, FDEM has spent $458.5 million in emergency funds on illegal immigration enforcement in the past year. -
New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too. -
The outcry follows comments from Rodney Barreto, chair of the Miami FIFA World Cup Host Committee, who told The Athletic this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured him that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were "not going to be at the stadium."' -
Florida Highway Patrol is leading efforts statewide to locate and arrest immigrants without legal status. A review of available numbers finds that approximately one in five arrests by troopers occurred in Palm Beach County. WLRN sought to learn why the focus has fallen heavier on the county than Broward and Miami-Dade, which have larger immigrant populations. -
The newspaper reports that Florida officials are in preliminary conversations with the Trump administration to shut down the facility, after the Department of Homeland Security concluded the center is too expensive to operate.
