Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.

Immigrant rights leaders are urging the Lake Worth Beach city commission to reject a proposed ten-year contract extension with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for fear it will negatively impact immigrant families

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.

“Florida’s colleges and universities are meant to be places for debate, disagreement, and discussion,” said Nicholas Warren, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida. “FIU cannot turn its campus into a ‘protest-free zone’ through student conduct rules."

Even before Haitian immigrants in Ohio officially lost their Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security required dozens of them to report to immigration appointments and accept ankle monitors.

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.

The 287(g) agreement lets Miami police ask people about their immigration status and detain individuals found to be in violation of immigration law.

"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.

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.

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.

A surge in immigration arrests in South Florida has alarmed immigrant rights advocates and detainee families, who are pleading for local law enforcement authorities to end their cooperation with federal immigration agencies in detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.

The State Board of Immigration Enforcement announced the results on its website. In total, 309 people were arrested over five days, some of whom had criminal records. All were arrested for violating immigration law.