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Courtesy/U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementAt least 46 people under ICE custody have died since the start of President Donald Trump’s administration in January 2025, according to a count by The Associated Press. ICE officials have reported 18 deaths since the start of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2025. -
Lynne Sladky/AP/APThe final vote was 224-204 for H.R. 1689, and included the support of U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart — all Republicans from Miami — along with South Florida Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson and U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the only Haitian member of Congress.
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A contingent of nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a "friend of the court" brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, mounting a major legal challenge against the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. -
"To be housing ICE detainees in a detention camp in the middle of the Everglades … without making sure that they have enough access to nutritious food and the ability to sleep and have access to counsel — everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary," U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, told reporters. -
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is reviewing plans to convert warehouses into detention facilities for immigrants. Immigration officials have spent over $1 billion on 11 warehouses. Many locations face community backlash and legal challenges. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
A man recently released from Alligator Alcatraz said conditions at the immigrant detention center are tortuous and inhumane, and a waste of taxpayer resources. -
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.
