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The federal government has asked a Miami judge to pause her order to close an immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz." Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security say the closure would disrupt immigration law enforcement. They requested a decision by Monday.

The vacant Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida is slated to become the state's newest immigration detention center.

FIFA is testing a new protocol for the 2026 World Cup in North America, requiring host committees to develop human rights action plans. This is the first time FIFA has implemented such a measure. However, human rights advocates are concerned that the standards are not enforceable and got watered down.

Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is apparently preparing to build a second immigration detention center, awarding at least one contract for what's labeled in state records as the "North Detention Facility."

DeSantis is encouraging sheriffs and police chiefs to fight to keep staff as ICE seeks to recruit Florida officers who've completed immigration-enforcement training.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

A Venezuelan migrant took the first step Thursday toward suing the United States for what he says was his wrongful detention and removal to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The first deportation flights from Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades began departing this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. About 100 of those detainees were deported directly from the center, the governor said, though he did not specify where they were taken.

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown have reunited with their families. The men spent months in a prison some of them described as "hell" because of the severe abuses they allege happened there.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration has already signed at least $245 million in state contracts to set up and run the new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. That's according to a public database that tracks state spending.