ICE raids

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.

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.

Organizers say more than 3,100 events, including more than two dozen in South Florida, from the Keys to Palm Beach County, have been registered in all 50 states, with more than 9 million people expected to participate.

The children of a respected Guatemalan community leader in Lake Worth Beach are missing school and work as court delays keep their undocumented mother detained for months. It’s a look at the toll the immigration system takes on families fighting to stay together.

Data show more than 20,600 immigration-related arrests in the state after President Trump returned to office. Their nationalities span more than 120 countries, and their ages range from 1 to 89.

There have been dozens of student walkouts protesting the actions of ICE held at high schools throughout the state this month.

Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes. A review by The Associated Press found at least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020.

Wide-ranging legislation addresses E-Verify, car accidents, and overseas remittances.

Attorneys in the Tampa Bay region said DACA recipients being swept up in aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.

As the Trump administration locks up people en masse in immigration detention, officials are also sending more people to solitary confinement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement data shows.

The pastor at a St Petersburg church whose congregation includes immigrants and minorities is calling out law enforcement officers who showed up in force at his carpark after he had protested against their partnership with ICE. He invoiced them $10k and said he is considering legal action.