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By John Kennedy Posted Jul 16, 2019 at 12:23 PM TALLAHASSEE — The city of South Miami joined farmworker and Hispanic advocacy organizations Tuesday in suing to overturn a new Florida law requiring local police agencies to assist federal officials in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, seeks to block the law which took effect July 1, claiming it …
JERRY IANNELLI | JULY 16, 2019 | 11:00AM This past spring, activists were unable to stop the Florida Republican Party from passing Senate Bill 168, a demonstrably racist “sanctuary city” ban that was originally pitched by an anti-immigrant extremist group. So a group of nine civil-rights organizations has teamed up with the City of South Miami to try to take down the new law in …
Jeffrey Schweers, Published 10:07 a.m. ET July 16, 2019 Florida’s new so-called “sanctuary cities” law, which prohibits local governments from enacting sanctuary policies and requires local law enforcement to help ICE detain immigrants without warrants, is being challenged as unconstitutional. A coalition of immigrant rights groups, including Florida Immigrant Coalition, Farmworker Association of Florida, WeCount!, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Hope Community Center, …
By Trent Kelly – Reporter Posted: 12:24 PM, July 15, 2019 MIAMI – President Donald Trump’s promised nationwide deportation sweep got off to a slower start than many expected on Sunday. “We haven’t seen the large scale sweeps that a lot of people were anticipating,” said Adonia Simpson, of Americans for Immigrant Justice. The plan to reportedly arrest and deport up to 2,000 …
BRITTANY SHAMMAS | JULY 15, 2019 | 10:00AM The stories coming out of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children are difficult to hear. The 3,200-bed facility — the nation’s only for-profit child detention center — is not licensed or overseen by state child-welfare workers, and at least two employees claim they weren’t properly trained. Kids have been held there for as long as eight …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JULY 14, 2019 04:47 PM A 15-year-old boy from Houston, who was picked up by immigration authorities in Texas and sent to the Homestead children’s detention center even though he has lived in the U.S. since he was an infant and his parents live in the U.S., walked out of the facility on Sunday, two days …
By Liane Morejon – Reporter, Trent Kelly – Reporter, Andrea Torres – Digital Reporter/Producer Posted: 11:11 AM, July 14, 2019 MIRAMAR, Fla. – The advocates of migrants with deportation orders in South Florida are on high alert this week. President Donald Trump warned earlier this week that agents’ enforcement crackdown was going to start Sunday. The operation aims to net about 2,000 migrants who have not complied with final deportation …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN, BIANCA PADRÓ OCASIO, MICHAEL WILNER, AND DANIEL CHANG JULY 14, 2019 07:40 AM The immigration enforcement raids that President Donald Trump said would start Sunday, with mass arrests expected in Miami and other major cities, never got under way as immigrant families with removal orders and others targeted for deportation remained on alert throughout the day, some of them …
BY LAUTARO GRINSPAN JULY 13, 2019 03:06 PM The deportation raids set to start in 10 cities across the country — including in Miami — on Sunday risk putting a new player front-and-center in the national controversy over migrant detention: hotel rooms. The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, originally slated to begin late last month before being delayed, could sweep up …
JERRY IANNELLI | JULY 13, 2019 | 9:00AM President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement department is, according to reports, planning on launching immigration raids on Sunday in ten cities — Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Miami. Details about the proposed raids are still scarce, but Trump appears to be targeting about 2,000 people who have …
