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Courtesy Congresswoman Frederica Wilson's officeU.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens, and U.S. Rep Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Miramar, denounced the Trump administration for allowing what they said were “inhumane” conditions at a facility in Pompano Beach that houses suspected undocumented immigrants. A 44-year-old Haitian woman died last week while in federal custody. -
Jon Elswick/APThe Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.
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“Ms. [Marie Ange] Blaise's life mattered, and we owe it to her and to the public to understand how such a loss occurred while she was in the care and custody of the U.S. government,” wrote U.S. Rep Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. -
The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing new report on the Venezuelan regime’s repression following the presidential election it stole last summer. -
COMMENTARY As long as a do-nothing Congress does nothing to fix a wrecked immigration system, the right and left keep holding the issue — and most Americans — hostage to unreasonable extremes. -
Florida’s attorney general asked federal courts Wednesday to let authorities enforce a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter Florida by eluding immigration officials. -
May Day protests planned for Thursday in South Florida and across the nation are aiming at scolding President Donald Trump for his administration's deportation policies, massive layoffs of federal worker and drastic funding cuts to scores of federal government programs. -
Two new laws that were demanded by Gov. Ron DeSantis have entangled every level of government, unnerving residents who had long considered the state an immigrant haven. -
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. -
A handful of Florida universities, including UF, are now officially signed on to have campus cops help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, while faculty at three universities have asked for a halt to the program. -
An ICE spokesperson acknowledged the structure, after South Florida U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilsont said she saw a “tent city” at the Krome North Service Processing Center during her visit last week. -
Lawyers and families across the U.S. are seeing more people being detained at immigration appointments, striking fear into the immigrant community.
