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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state's holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
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Miami's Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for Cubans fleeing communist rule at the height of the Cold War. It will reopen next month as a museum honoring the history of Cuban exiles with immersive state-of-the-art exhibits that explore the meaning of migration, freedom and homeland.
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After months of anonymity, the leader of the unusual campaign, Michael B. Fernández, has decided to go public for the first time, explaining why he is spending millions — or even tens of millions — of his fortune on the ads.
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Immigration has dominated recent public discourse about Florida, whether it be the opening of Alligator Alcatraz, or Gov. Ron DeSantis declaring an “immigration emergency”.
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The first Catholic Mass was celebrated at the controversial immigrant detention center in the remote Everglades on Saturday and Church officials are now permitted by state corrections officials to provide Catholic ministry and pastoral care moving forward, Archdiocese of Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said.
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Florida has started to pay for plane tickets for certain unauthorized immigrants to self-deport, officials said this week, in what appears to be the first such program run in part by a state.
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One month after President Donald Trump toured Alligator Alcatraz and the first inmates arrived, WLRN has compiled a timetable of events and stories leading up to the facility's construction and the controversies it has courted since it opened in the Everglades.
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Elizabeth Castillo wasn’t an activist until Immigration and Customs Enforcement started taking away her neighbors. She is now plugged into a citywide network of people who are constantly tracking ICE’s activities. The movement against ICE in Los Angeles — one that is starting to take root, in different forms, in cities like New York — is part of a growing shift from symbolic protest to direct action.
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An ICE report says Marie-Ange Blaise, 44, died after refusing to take blood pressure medicine. Her son said she couldn't get seen by a doctor for chest pains.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said every person held at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility has been issued a final order saying they must be deported. Lawyers say he's wrong.
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The Trump administration authorized the deployment of National Guard units at immigration facilities, including in Florida, escalating its use of the military as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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The suit filed in Washington, D.C., alleges that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Department Secretary Kristi Noem have ignored warnings not to travel to Haiti by State Department officials in seeking to terminate TPS.