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Rebecca Blackwell/APThe announcement comes as the state continues its aggressive approach to help carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Florida's total is in comparison to the more than 5,000 arrests carried out over a three-month period in the Los Angeles area, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. -
Matias Delacroix/AP/APThousands have returned since immigration policies tightened under President Trump. Unable to afford safer routes, migrants are taking dangerous boat journeys from Panama to Colombia. The United Nations has urged authorities to protect these migrants from criminal networks.
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They are calling attention to what they describe as inhumane conditions and to demand the release of those held inside by state and federal authorities. -
Florida updated agreement on handling detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz,' but a month after it openedFlorida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more than a month after 'Alligator Alcatraz' opened. The facility built in the Florida Everglades has faced criticism for allegedly restricting detainees' access to attorneys and immigration courts. -
Three families awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced. -
Equal Ground slams Trump for seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in census“We strongly condemn Donald Trump’s call to trample on the voting rights of millions by ordering an unlawful census,” Equal Ground Executive Director Genesis Robinson told WLRN. -
Immigration issues are complex. Discussing them is challenging, since key terms are often conflated and confused. Clarifying these terms and their legal implications can help ensure people are talking about the same things – regardless of whether they agree about who should be in the country -
A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to construction of an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates environmental laws. -
Report finds that local jails and U.S. Marshals Service contribute to greater immigration detention numbers in US and Florida, beyond what ICE reports. -
More than 200 Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador's maximum security prison in March, including Frengel Reyes, who was living in Tampa with his wife and is now back in his homeland without her. Ever since returning to Venezuela, Reyes said he's haunted by the four months he spent in prison. -
As part of its crackdown on immigration, the U.S. State Department announced that it would start requiring travelers from certain countries to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the U.S. -
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
