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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.

It started in Florida with “Alligator Alcatraz.” Then came news of the “Speedway Slammer” in Indiana. Most recently the Trump administration announced plans for yet another immigration detention center, this one in Nebraska, to be called the “Cornhusker Clink.”

Authorities say Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old from India, caused a crash that killed three people. Singh faces charges of vehicular homicide and immigration violations. The Trump administration has accused California, Washington and New Mexico of failing to enforce federal requirements that commercial drivers read and speak English proficiently.

Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, their loved ones and Venezuela.

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.