Immigration and Customs Enforcement

In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet next week will consider approximately $90 million in grants for local law enforcement agencies throughout the state.

In 2014, Michael Barfield sued the City of Sarasota after officials refused to hand over public records they said were under federal control. He told WUSF it's the same argument being made now by ICE directives.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care. An investigation by The Associated Press and KFF Health News found that people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are being denied access to doctors and medications for maladies ranging from dental pain to pregnancy to prostate cancer.

They have come from various churches and faith traditions in South Florida to hold "Freedom vigils" for nearly a year to pray and demonstrate against what they say are inhumane conditions inside the immigrant detention center.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that's unprecedented in the agency's two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight. An Associated Press investigation finds that at least 10 ICE detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 and ordered ICE to increase arrests and deportations.

"Hands Across America 2.0 is about bringing communities together to stand united to save our democracy, support our immigrant neighbors, and show that the will of the people still matters," Myra Kremenitzer, head of Indivisible Boca Raton, said in a statement announcing Monday’s planned protest.

Adys Lastres Morera, a Cuban national and lawful U.S. permanent resident living in Miami, was taken into custody this week by ICE agents because the government says she “poses a threat to the United States and undermines American foreign policy interests.”

A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the state.

If enacted, the bill would override Florida's current law requiring counties to agree to house people detained on a federal immigration hold.

In total, FDEM has spent $458.5 million in emergency funds on illegal immigration enforcement in the past year.

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too.