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By Syra Ortiz-Blanes “Cindy Woods, National Policy Counsel at Americans for Immigrant Justice, told the Miami Herald that these are ‘positive changes for these two processes that have not been working.’ ‘This is allowing more flexibility for folks who might have already left out of fear and insecurity to be able to try and access this process from a different …
By Elliot Spagat “ICE told advocates last week that it aimed to have up to 500 families under curfews at any given time, said Cindy Woods, national policy counsel for Americans for Immigrant Justice. There were about 200 families under curfew at the time. The number of families enrolled is expected to grow significantly as the program expands, the U.S. …
By Dara Kam “Migrant workers and advocates have filed a federal lawsuit challenging part of a new Florida law that makes it a felony to transport into the state people who enter the country illegally, arguing the law is vague and will lead to ‘unlawful arrest, prosecution and harassment.’ The law, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is among a series …
Americans for Immigrant Justice executive director Shalyn Fluharty joined WEDU for a panel discussing Florida’s anti-immigrant law SB 1718 and its effects on our state and communities. “This is a real problem, not just because it’s uprooting members of our community—Floridians who have been here for years based upon the fear that they face—but also because we know that we …
By Alex Hinojosa “Shalyn Fluharty, executive director at Americans for Immigrant Justice, said that in her experience the majority of migrants she had spoken to will cross actively looking for a border patrol agent to whom they may turn themselves in. However, adding other law enforcement personnel and mixing that with out-of-state national guard troops and other law enforcement personnel …
By Vanessa Romo This provision was among the most hotly contested and will likely face strong legal challenges because it’s so poorly written, attorney Evelyn Wiese told NPR. “As someone who has practiced immigration law for many years, I’m not exactly sure what the law means by ‘inspected,’” she said. Wiese noted that the Republican lawmakers failed to define the …
By Micah Danney Law360 (March 9, 2023, 8:05 PM EST) — Days after reports began to break that the Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families that enter the U.S. unlawfully, immigration attorney Shalyn Fluharty recalled a 14-year-old girl she represented who she said tried to hang herself in detention.Speaking at a video press conference with other immigration advocates on Thursday, Fluharty, who heads Americans for …
Now signed and in immediate effect, the multimillion dollar Florida state plan to transport incoming migrants from anywhere to anywhere else in the United States. Watch AI Justice executive director Shalyn Fluharty on This Week in South Florida here.
By Micah Danney “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill devoting $10 million to a program that expands the state’s transporting of migrants to other states, a move critics promptly decried.The law funds and authorizes the relocation of migrants to other parts of the country and establishes a category of people called “inspected unauthorized alien” who will be subject …
By Tim Padgett “Last week, more than 100 Haitian migrants arrived in the Florida Keys after a dangerous sea voyage. The Biden administration hopes to discourage those journeys with a new parole program it announced last month for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua — and Haiti. That new policy is popular inside Haiti, where people are lining up daily to …
