Undocumented Immigrants

The Florida agency in charge of the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility must release all texts, emails, and other communications with federal authorities about how the migrant center was set up and run, a Leon County judge ruled Tuesday.

Wide-ranging legislation addresses E-Verify, car accidents, and overseas remittances.

Undocumented immigrants in Florida won’t be able to attend public universities if a sweeping new education bill passes the state Legislature.

The circuit judge wrote that the laws allow access to facilities such as state prisons and county jails — but not to the immigrant-detention center run by the state.

“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.

A former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Keefe’s position will be taken over effective immediately by Anthony Coker, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement liaison to the state of Florida.

The student protestors, waving signs and chanting, demanded the FAU administration end the 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the university announced in July.

The capacity issue is expected to escalate in Florida in the coming weeks as sheriffs and police chiefs ramp up arrests and detention of undocumented immigrants, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Cabinet members, who met Tuesday as the State Board of Immigration Enforcement.

At least two people have been wrongly charged under a Florida law that outlaws people living in the U.S. illegally from entering the state since a federal judge halted its enforcement

A federal appeals panel has kept on hold a law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state, rejecting arguments by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.

The Miami-Dade Commission is considering a proposal that would block county officials from releasing public records about suspected undocumented immigrants detained in its jails, leaving family members in the dark about their loved ones, warns the Florida Immigrant Coalition.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed on Tuesday that Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old Haitian woman, died in federal custody at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach.