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“These findings confirm a deliberate system built to punish, dehumanize, and hide the suffering of people in detention,” said Ana Piquer, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Americas, in a statement accompanying the report.

Details about the migrant detention operation at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba were contained in emails among government employees as the Trump administration rushed to set up the site early this year.

Education leaders watching how immigration policies affect schools expect classrooms to get emptier every year, but this year, they were caught off guard by falling enrollment rates in some of Florida’s largest districts.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem came to the Tampa Bay area on Monday, where she praised the partnership between the federal government and Florida law enforcement agencies in cracking down on undocumented immigration.

Two men have been wrongly charged under a Florida immigration law that's currently suspended. The state attorney general's office reported these charges on Monday. Both men were charged over the weekend in Bradenton under a law that outlaws people living in the U.S. illegally from entering Florida.

The announcement comes as the state continues its aggressive approach to help carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Florida's total is in comparison to the more than 5,000 arrests carried out over a three-month period in the Los Angeles area, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Attorneys on behalf of a dozen U.S. House Democrats Thursday pushed for a federal judge to force the Trump administration to comply with an appropriations law that allows for unannounced oversight visits at Department of Homeland Security facilities that detain immigrants.

On "The Florida Roundup," host Tom Hudson connected with Alexis Madrigal of KQED in San Francisco and NPR's Jasmine Garsd for a cross-country conversation regarding immigration tactics.

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America's immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration's hard-line policies. The religious leaders condemned Trump's immigration crackdown, saying its tearing apart families, inciting fear and upending American church life.

The human rights organization's findings are based on interviews with 20 Venezuelan immigrants who were secretly transferred to the base and held for up to 16 days before being deported.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a Tuesday press conference he is in talks with law enforcement in Panama City about opening a third immigration detention facility there.

As Krome fills with new detainees, emergency calls have risen faster than the detainee population. From January to July, 911 calls from the center doubled compared to the year before.