If approved, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told Fox Business, it would become the state’s largest immigration detention facility.

Dozens of Miami residents braved the heat outside City Hall Tuesday morning to speak out against a controversial proposal that would deputize local police with immigration enforcement powers through a 287(g) agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It passed 3-2 after passionate debate.

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential elections and ending Nicaragua’s civil war, died at 95.

Florida's attorney general has been found to be in civil contempt of a federal judge's order over a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said Tuesday that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was unconvincing in his arguments that he didn't flout her injunction putting the law on hold earlier this year.

The Republican lawmaker visited the prison — and plans to visit the Krome Detention Center — in response to a Miami Herald investigative story about harsh conditions and improper use of force on detainees at the Miami facility.

Authorities can't enforce a new Florida law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state while the law is being challenged in court. That's according to two new rulings. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Monday denied a request by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to put on hold her earlier injunction while it is being appealed.

Saturday's nationwide demonstrations against President Trump were largely about his alleged threats to democracy — but in communities like Miami, even Trump supporters decried his anti-immigrant crusade.

Civil rights groups and immigrant advocates are urging City of Miami officials to reject a proposed 287(g) agreement that would authorize local police to act as federal immigration enforcement agents in carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation strategy.

Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the Morena party to dominate courts.

Federal immigration authorities say scammers are calling and targeting people with threats of deportation or being tied to drug traffickers in order to get money or Social Security numbers. The feds advice: Hang up the phone.