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The Republican-controlled Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee voted 12-4 along party lines to support the proposal (HB 955).
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Critics of the 287(g) program say it fosters fear and distrust of authorities in immigrant communities across Florida.
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Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there.
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The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.
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The U.N. human rights commission's working group has now said it will appeal to El Salvador to consider the recent deportation and imprisonment of Venezuelans “alleged enforced or involuntary disappearances” cases.
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Attorneys for the more than 200 Venezuelans deported to an El Salvador prison say immigration agents used a seemingly arbitrary check-list form to tally points to determine if the migrants belonged to Tren de Aragua.
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Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war
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Ninety-seven of the 140 law enforcement agencies that have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE are in Florida. The Florida Roundup discusses the collaboration.
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Scheduled to be completed in May, the Freedom Tower at 600 Biscayne Blvd. on Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, will become a museum highlighting the building’s full history dating back to 1925.
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The federal judge's order also bars the Agency for Global Media from terminating grant funding for its broadcast outlets, including Doral-based Radio Martí.
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Prosecutors said Jean Morose Viliena wrote on his application for legal residency that he had not ordered or participated in extrajudicial and political killings and other acts of violence against the Haitian people
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“My husband, a father living in the United States, married to an American citizen with no criminal record, has been unjustly detained by ICE,” wrote the family of Eduardo Nuñez Gonzalez, a Cuban man with Spanish citizenship.