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The two Republican Florida senators penned a strongly-worded letter to President Biden demanding that he inform Floridians of the White House plans to address the unfolding humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti and prevent what they anticipate to be a “drastic influx of Haitians” to the state.
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With Republicans accusing President Joe Biden and his administration of failing to enforce basic immigration laws and secure the U.S. southern border, the issue of immigration is particularly complicated in Miami-Dade, where more than half of the county’s residents were born abroad.
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In Torres' directorial debut film, an aspiring toymaker from El Salvador must contend with the hurdles of securing a work visa in New York. Torres, whose own immigrant journey began in Miami, is back in South Florida to perform and spoke to WLRN about the creation of the film.
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Facing a challenging path to reelection amid low favorability ratings and public wariness over the economy, President Joe Biden used his 2024 State of the Union address to take a fighting posture.
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The Senate immigration bill would have hired thousands of asylum officers and expanded their powers, but asylum officers are already employed to decide asylum cases.
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The state leads the nation with more than 481,000 immigration court cases, as a record number of people cross into the United States. A Tampa immigration lawyer talks about the backlog.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he's deploying members of the Florida State Guard and additional members of the Florida National Guard to Texas, which is in a dispute with the federal government about undocumented immigrants entering the country.
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In another round in long-running debates about illegal immigration, a Senate committee approved a bill that would prevent cities and counties from accepting identification cards issued to undocumented immigrants.
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Immigration officials have encountered migrants 8.1 million times during Joe Biden’s presidency, but the data represents events not people.
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The Biden administration are fighting claims from Republicans that his immigration policies are causing upticks in illegal immigration. But key immigration data doesn't tell you the whole story. PolitiFact explains the key facts to better understand claims you might hear in ads and speeches ahead of elections.
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A Haitian boy arrived on Florida’s maritime border. His next five days detained at sea illuminate the crisis facing children traveling to the U.S. alone and the crews forced to send them back.
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Federal data — tracking removals, returns and expulsions — shows Barack Obama deported more people in each of his terms than Trump did.