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In a time of changing immigration policy, scammers are taking advantage of the confusion and fear. How the lawyers whose identities are being used to defraud immigrants are coping with the onslaught of AI scams.

The arrest underscores the reality of immigrants in Palm Beach County and the hardship that befalls the American children who have to pick up the pieces.

The curved entrance walls at Oolite Arts are enveloped in pale pinks, muted reds and cool blues. Arches rise across the architecture. Columns, patterned surfaces and imagined passageways turn the gallery into something resembling a temple, civic building or ceremonial chamber. Look closer, however, and the decorative surfaces begin to reveal a considerably more bureaucratic origin.

The formal Request for Information paints a picture of what the state is planning: multiple contractor-run detention centers throughout Florida, each holding up to 50 adults "under the oversight of the U.S. Government."

Despite the public demands of immigrant rights advocates for more than a year and the more recent pleas from families of those detained, the conditions at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami have not improved for detainees inside a facility designed for criminal felons — not suspected undocumented immigrants. Three women share with WLRN their husbands' stories from inside the FDC.

Argentine President Javier Milei has signed an emergency decree allowing the government to deny entry to or expel foreigners who incite discrimination or violence against Argentines. This measure Thursday adds new grounds to Argentina's immigration law, allowing authorities to revoke visas and deport those promoting hatred against Argentines. The move follows weeks of international backlash during and after the World Cup.

Temporary protected status was given to Haitians after the 2010 quake because Haiti was deemed too dangerous for a safe return. In June, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS.

Florida follows a national trend of an increase in deportation orders, which hit an all-time high of 79,000 in June, the most orders issued in a month so far in President Donald Trump’s second term.

The 28-year-old Mexican man who died in St. Augustine was one of four others in a vehicle that was stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store before 7 a.m.

Non-traditional state agencies, from college police to wildlife protection, have been pulled into immigration enforcement.

The Trump administration is reviving a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy, known as "public charge," appeared on Thursday in the Federal Register and will be formally published on July 20.

Lake Worth Beach community members decried an immigration operation in their city, as 25 to 30 federal agents and Florida law enforcement officers surrounded a bakery to arrest a single man. The man's children watched outside before he turned himself in to immigration officers. It comes as the city has been under siege immigration efforts in the past week — part of a national push by ICE and the Trump administration.