immigration policy

COMMENTARY Venezuelans and other migrant groups see leaders like Marco Rubio no longer have their backs — because today, boosting deportations matters more than bolstering democracy.

COMMENTARY If the Trump administration wants federal judges to buy its deportation crusade, maybe it shouldn't admit every country it wants to deport migrants back to is a human rights hell hole.

The 2023 law was part of a years-long effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Legislature to crack down on illegal immigration.

The Senate president and House speaker issued a proclamation for a special session that will start Tuesday. They also released summaries of bills that include steps aimed at helping carry out President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Creating crimes for "aiding" undocumented immigrants, making university more expensive, forcing police departments to be trained by ICE are among Gov. Ron DeSantis' priorities, as outlined in draft legislation for this week's special legislative session obtained by WLRN.

Republican leaders in the state legislature say they support President Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration but want to deal with it and other issues identified by DeSantis on their schedule, not his.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months. Florida is home to nearly 300,000 TPS holders, the largest number in the nation.

President-elect Trump has pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants — including a million in Florida — but the immigrants most vulnerable to his sweep may actually be those who are here legally.

COMMENTARY If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis really wants to stop the migrant invasion he's girding for, he can steer the millions he's wasting on state patrol to Haiti development.

Florida passed in 2023 one of the strictest immigration laws in the country, and now businesses struggle to find workers in several sectors of the economy

President Joe Biden overstated the authority provided to him in the border security bill. Former President Donald Trump made broad and often unsubstantiated statements about the migrants entering the U.S. and his administration’s immigration successes.

COMMENTARY Too many immigrant advocates forget the U.S. needs to reform asylum and aid Ukraine — and that doing both can help ease America's border crisis.