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By Jerry Ianelli December 19, 2017 In the early-morning hours of December 7, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Louisiana woke up 92 Somali detainees and shackled them by their wrists, waists, and ankles. The Somalis were then loaded onto a chartered airplane that was supposed to return them to Somalia. But then, for reasons the government has not yet …
By Aric Chokey December 7, 2017 After declining for years, arrests of undocumented immigrants have nearly doubled in a region overseen by federal immigration officials in South Florida. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Miami office reported taking 6,192 people into custody this year across Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. That’s up from 3,524 last year, according to agency figures released Tuesday. …
By Morgan Baskin December 6, 2017 Following a series of nation-wide raids this summer that sent nearly 400 undocumented minors to immigration detention facilities, eight immigrants’ rights organizations have collectively filed twin complaints against Immigration and Customs Enforcement with its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security. Those organizations—including the National Immigrant Justice Center and Americans for Immigrant Justice—say that …
By Mark Keierleber December 5, 2017 Ronyde Christina Ponthieux is begging President Donald Trump to reverse course on a decision that could upend her life. Born in the U.S. to Haitian refugee parents, she could soon be forced to move to a country she’s never known. In a YouTube video, the 10-year-old fifth-grader at Miami Shores Elementary School took her …
By Salvador Hernandez December 3, 2017 As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida in the early days of September, immigration advocates and public safety officials raised concerns that people living in the US illegally would not seek help or shelter for fear that doing so would expose them to arrest and possible deportation. Hoping to ease those fears, the US Department of …
By Frank Gluck December 2, 2017 Jean Phillipe came to Fort Myers in 2010 as a teenager fleeing the ravages of an earthquake-devastated Haiti. Since then, he’s found full-time work as a medical translator for the Lee Health hospital system — a good job that he had hoped to keep for years to come. But recent changes to U.S. immigration policy …
December 2, 2017 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Ten thousand Haitian immigrants in Southwest Florida will face deportation due to the non-renewal of the Temporary Protection Status. Lee Memorial Hospital hosted a free legal clinic, Saturday, to help families impacted know their rights. The hospital partnered with Americans For Immigrant Justice Organization led by attorney, Adonia Simpson, to offer individual meetings …
By Michael R. Malone November 29, 2017 Highlighting the economic vibrancy and cultural richness that immigrants have brought and bring to the U.S. “yesterday and today,” an inspired coalition of Miami business, education, religious, and political leaders held a half-day forum November 28 at the UM Newman Alumni Center aimed at forging sensible immigration policy to “Keep the American Dream …
By Jacqueline Charles, Julie K. Brown and Lance Dixon November 21, 2017 South Florida community leaders Tuesday decried the Trump administration’s decision to return nearly 60,000 Haitians to their quake-ravaged homeland, calling it “heartbreaking” and “shameful” while vowing that their fight has just begun. “We all know that Haiti is not ready to absorb so many of its children,” said Gepsie Metellus, …
BY JANETTE VAZQUEZ November 02, 2017 Figuring out a path forward for the 800,000 students who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was the subject of a recent conference at Barry University. “These people are terrified about not knowing how to plan for the future. You have a pretty significant population who was given a …
