Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The lawsuit, brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans for Immigrant Justice, alleges systemic abuse at the facility. According to the complaint, ICE has used the Miramar building since October 2025 to hold individuals for days at a time, violating the agency's own policy limiting holds of detainees to 12 hours.

As midterm elections approach, some voters are worried about immigration enforcement officers at polling places.

U.S. Senate hopeful Angie Nixon and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemned ICE officials for unlawfully detaining people for up to several days at a time in overcrowded cells, failing to provide proper medical attention and granting detainees limited access to legal counsel.

An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement. The U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Thursday documents costly problems with several initiatives ICE has pursued since President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered the mass detention and deportation of people who were in the country illegally.

Federal immigration authorities tell WLRN the Pompano Beach mother was ordered deported 20 years ago because she is a convicted criminal. Her supporters say Sirena Prosper is a lawful permanent U.S. resident.

The fund will give grants of up to $1,000 per household to cover essential expenses such as food, rent, utilities, childcare, medication, and school supplies. Assistance is restricted to families residing in Doral and does not cover legal fees or bond.

The charges represent a rare moment of the Justice Department seeking to hold immigration officers accountable.

Using a controversial rule adopted during the wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2024, FIU disciplined students taking part in a silent, three-minute T-shirt protest against FIU's ICE partnership - even though its own staff confirmed the demonstration caused no disruption. In the free speech lawsuit that followed, a federal judge sided with the students. FIU now says it's weighing its next legal move.

Federal immigration detention in local facilities hearkens back to earlier eras of expanding American incarceration. As a sociologist of law and punishment, I’ve explored how rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap into federal funds during times of economic precarity.

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. ProPublica's nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.

Rafael José Quero Silva — a known human rights violator who participated in the detention and torture of political dissidents under the Nicolás Maduro regime — was returned to Venezuela on Aug. 18 following a Department of Justice immigration judge’s removal order., U.S. officials said.

Seven FIU students scored a major free speech victory over their university, days before the start of the Fall Semester.