By Laura C. Morel / January 24, 2020 The Miami Police Department has enacted changes to how it treats immigrant victims of crime in response to an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The story found that dozens of law enforcement agencies across the country routinely undermine visa protections for immigrants. Miami, like other departments serving large immigrant populations, had created barriers that …
Immigrants at Key West Jail Report Abuse, Neglect, and Extreme Isolation
ALEXI C. CARDONA | DECEMBER 20, 2019 | 9:00AM Ron W. didn’t know what had landed him in solitary confinement until he heard the word “obstruction.” While waiting in line for his medication at the Monroe County jail in Key West, he began to sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” In response, Ron was disciplined for “obstructing the pill line” and sent to isolation for …
“Los Tratan como criminales” : denuncian actos inhumanos a migrantes en algunos centros de detención
VILMA TARAZONA 12 Dic 2019 – 06:43 PM EST Abogadas de las organizaciones Americans for Immigrant Justice y Southern Poverty Law Center, junto a un equipo, realizaron la investigación en cuatro centros de detención de inmigrantes en Florida. Visitaron durante cuatro meses los lugares con mayor población de migrantes detenidos y hablaron con el 5% de ellos. “No sé qué …
Report slams medical care, solitary confinement in Florida immigration detention centers
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN DECEMBER 10, 2019 12:17 PM National civil rights and immigration lawyers are calling on state and federal officials to mandate complete oversight of all adult immigration detention facilities in Florida following a scathing report by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans for Immigrant Justice released Monday. The 104-page report highlights “substandard” conditions at Florida’s four adult …
The U visa is supposed to help protect immigrants and solve crimes. But police are undermining it
By Laura C. Morel | Nov 7, 2019 Nataly Alcantara awoke to two shadows standing in her bedroom. Her husband and their toddler son lay next to her, with their 3-month-old daughter nestled in a crib beside the bed. One of the shadows, Alcantara realized, held a knife. “Give us your money!” one woman shouted while the other pointed a …
Forsaken by Trump, immigrant ‘Dreamers’ seek U.S. Supreme Court reprieve
Lawrence Hurley BALTIMORE (Reuters) – When Maricruz Abarca learned three years ago that she had been given the legal right under a U.S. government program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to work in the United States and avoid deportation, she started to cry. After years of living illegally in the shadows after moving to the United States from Mexico …
All Florida Cops And Elected Officials Will Be Forced To Comply With ICE As Of Tuesday
By DANIEL RIVERO & MONIQUE O. MADAN • SEP 30, 2019 A federal judge has temporarily blocked a portion of a controversial Florida law that called on local police to cross state lines to assist federal immigration officials but left in place a provision where the officers would have to hold undocumented immigrants until the feds pick them up. In an order issued on …
Facing South Florida: Jennifer Anzardo Valdes Discusses Migrant Children Crisis – CBS4
By Jim DeFede September 15, 2019 at 9:35 am The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a troubling report on how migrant detention centers like Homestead failed to address the mental health need of the children in their custody. The report identified problems in finding qualified mental health counselors to treat these kids and …
Teenagers Incarcerated at Broward Transitional Center Despite Congressional Mandate – Sun Sentinel
AUG 26, 2019 | 11:25 AM — On the night of his 18th birthday, a Honduras teen known only as “HDSB” in court filings, was shackled, put in an orange suit, and brought to the Broward Transitional Center, an ICE detention center in Deerfield Beach operated by The Geo Group. His crime? Entering the U.S. illegally to flee gang members who had killed …
Latest Trump Immigration Rule ‘Causing Panic’ in Florida – Florida Phoenix
August 26, 2019 — Last week, Florida immigration attorney Adonia Simpson went to speak to a group of Miami pediatricians. The doctors had a pressing question: What should they tell patients worried about a major Trump administration immigration rule issued the day before? The rule released earlier this month would make it tougher for immigrants to remain in the United …