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By Catherine Wilson June 27, 2018 Several Florida law firms have pledged to help reunify separated immigrant families and volunteered to represent asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Akerman chairman and CEO David I. Spector and Bilzin Sumberg chairman John Sumberg are among the law firm leaders who joined a coalition effort by dozens of law firms nationally offering pro bono representation …
By Edwidge Danticat June 26, 2018 One of my earliest childhood memories is of being torn away from my mother. I was four years old and she was leaving Haiti for the United States to join my father, who’d emigrated two years earlier, to escape both a dictatorship and poverty. My mother was entrusting my younger brother and me to the care …
This Week in South Florida June 24, 2018 Watch here.
By Maria Sacchetti, Kevin Sieff and Marc Fisher June 24, 2018 Their mothers are missing, their fathers far away. They get pizza, maybe cold cuts. They are exhausted; they cannot sleep. There are other children around, but they had never seen those kids before, and those kids are crying or screaming or rocking or spreading the feeling that everything is not okay. The children …
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump traded one border crisis for another: instead of separating immigrant children from their parents, it appears that the U.S. government will now detain moms and dads indefinitely alongside their sons and daughters. New questions will now be asked. Can Trump really get the courts to dismantle the Flores agreement, a legal settlement from 1997 which enshrined …
June 23, 2018 Una experta en inmigración analizó la situación de las separaciones de familias y las posibles consecuencias de la orden ejecutiva. Vea la entrevista aquí.
June 23, 2018 El [Fiscal General] Sessions ha hablado de cambios en las solicitudes de asilo político y una experta analiza este panorama. Vea la entrevista aquí.
June 22, 2018 By Avery Anapol An 8-year-old boy who was separated from his father at the border was expected to represent himself in immigration court, according to a new report from The New Yorker. The boy, named in the report by only his first name, Pedro, did not have legal counsel or a right to a public defender, The New Yorker reported. Pedro …
By Jerry Ianelli June 7, 2018 When 92 Somali detainees were flown from Louisiana to Dakar, Senegal, and then inexplicably taken to Miami at the end of 2017, immigration lawyers representing the group were particularly worried about one thing: While some of the detainees were being held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Processing Center in West Miami-Dade County, others were shipped …
By Maryam Saleh June 7, 2018 When an inmate at the Glades County Detention Center requests a Bible, the turnaround is about as rapid as one would expect, often with the chaplain’s personal involvement. Ask for a copy of the Quran, and be prepared to wait. Thanks to an ill-fated airplane flight that made international news when it failed to deport 92 …
