Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The lawsuit, brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans for Immigrant Justice, alleges systemic abuse at the facility. According to the complaint, ICE has used the Miramar building since October 2025 to hold individuals for days at a time, violating the agency's own policy limiting holds of detainees to 12 hours.

U.S. Senate hopeful Angie Nixon and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemned ICE officials for unlawfully detaining people for up to several days at a time in overcrowded cells, failing to provide proper medical attention and granting detainees limited access to legal counsel.

In a joint letter addressed to top state and federal officials overseeing "Alligator Alcatraz," the lawmakers called them out for subjecting immigrant detainees to extreme conditions and misleading lawmakers.

In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said voters are focused on affordability issues. She sharply rejected the rising democratic socialist wing of the Democratic Party.

Wasserman Schultz, who is white, faced immediate criticism from local black political leaders, statewide party officials, and her primary opponents — all of whom are Black — for entering the race after the district she currently represents, Florida's 25th, was redrawn to favor Republicans. The district has been represented by Black Democrats since 1992.

All eyes are on the Democratic primary in Florida's 20th Congressional District, the outcome of which could bring Florida's Black representation in Congress down to a historic low.

After redistricting, CD 20 is located entirely within Broward County. It’s traditionally been a primarily Black district, and was the main area Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to when he insisted certain Florida districts had been improperly drawn to favor race.

According to a written statement from the office of Democratic South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Claudia Rodriguez Caglianone, 28, was released from federal custody on Monday afternoon.

"I am very concerned that there are 671 people in this facility that shouldn’t be here, that should not have been detained in the first place, and that the policy of the Trump administration that is putting them here is outrageous and unacceptable," said the congresswoman.

More than two dozen family members and former soccer teammates of Claudia Rodriguez — and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — gathered outside the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach to call attention to her case in hopes of getting the Venezuelan immigrant released from federal detention.

For over two decades, the Overtown Youth Center has served as a needed safe haven for students in the historic neighborhood — providing families with academic, financial, and health services. It's now expanding to south Broward County in partnership with Broward schools.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, has called on Florida International University to rescind charges against seven students who engaged in a silent protest.