immigration detention

Amid intense negotiations in Congress, federal Democratic lawmakers hosted a roundtable in West Palm Beach to hear from immigrant advocates, lawyers and pastors about the effects of immigration enforcement in the county.

Former detainees are set to testify about conditions at a Florida immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz." A federal judge is considering whether they have sufficient access to the legal system. Civil rights attorneys are seeking a temporary injunction to ensure detainees at the state-run Everglades facility have the same access to attorneys as those in federally-run centers.

President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration has contributed to a year-to-year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025. That's according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Although deportation data is limited because the federal government has stopped releasing it, available figures show Trump remains far below his goal of deporting 1 million people a year.

“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.