Haitian immigrants

Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins condemned the Trump administration's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling protecting Haitian immigrants nationwide from being deported.

The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitians back to Haiti — where a million and a half people are already refugees from gang violence. Legal experts spoke on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup about the resources and options for the community being affected by this decision.

Saying scores of her Haitian constituents are being threatened with deportation, Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica S. Wilson has written President Donald Trump and other top administration officials urging them to extend Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals.

On the 16th anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, Miami's Haitian community weighs fear, exile, or return to chaos

A group of Latino Miami-Dade Democrats is calling out “four traitorous Republican Cuban-American politicians” — with a billboard ad campaign — for failing to protect tens of thousands of immigrants in South Florida from being deported under the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.

Haitians are facing long wait times and extortion as they try to obtain passports so they can apply for the Biden administration humanitarian parole program. Their loved ones here in South Florida are victims, too.

South Florida's Haitian-American Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick tells WLRN how President Biden’s humanitarian parole program impacts Haitians, migrants and asylum seekers — while families discuss the stress of going through it.

Nonstop migrant landings in the Florida Keys has overwhelmed federal law enforcement agencies. But the county must deal with the boats left behind in an already fragile environment.

Experts say a new humanitarian parole program for Venezuelans marks a new incentive-cum-enforcement trend for immigration policy — if it actually works.

As the immigration detention system flourished since the 1980s, it led to the creation of the private prison industry. The last episode of WLRN's podcast Detention By Design looks at the inextricable links between the two, and how, in turn, the picture has gone full circle in 2022, leaving us in a place very similar to the early days of Haitian and Cuban arrivals in Florida.

The human rights group's strongly worded assessment comes a year after images of mounted border patrol agents driving away Haitians sparked global anger.

Homeland Security Investigations and other agencies are battling a 'marked uptick' in gun smuggling to Haiti, with an increase in both the quantity and the caliber of weapons.