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 …
Many of Miami’s immigrants wear ankle monitors. Will technology betray them? – Miami Herald
AUGUST 24, 2019 08:30 AM — At 7:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, Aug. 21, a line of about 30 people — most of them wearing long pants that covered small bulges at the ankle — stood in front of a nondescript office building in North Miami off a busy stretch of Biscayne Boulevard. They chatted among themselves as traffic …
Unequal Outcomes: Most ICE Detainees Held In Rural Areas Where Deportation Risks Soar – NPR
August 15, 20197:13 AM ET — Yoel Alonso sat in a cell for 10 months before he ever met with a lawyer. His wife had to travel 1,000 miles to visit him at the remote Louisiana facility where he was detained. Alonso is not imprisoned for committing a crime. In fact, he turned himself in to immigration officials last October, …
South Florida Attorneys Bring Help For Migrant Kids That Have To Face U.S. Courts On Their Own – WLRN
By MADELINE FOX • AUG 8, 2019 South Florida facilities for unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S. border have loomed large in the debate over the treatment of the youngest immigrants. Several Democratic presidential candidates visited the now-emptied Homestead detention facility in the days surrounding the first Democratic debates. The removal of Homestead’s last remaining children from the facility over the weekend marked the end …
Immigrant-Rights Group Says ICE Is Withholding Info On Deported Children – MIAMI NEW TIMES
JERRY IANNELLI | AUGUST 7, 2019 | 9:00AM In January, Americans for Immigrant Justice — one of the most prominent immigrant-rights activist and legal groups in Florida — filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the federal government for what sounded, at least at the time, like basic information. The group wanted to know how the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) …
DHS Sued For Info On Teens Transferred To Ice Custody At 18 – LAW 360
By Carolina Bolado Law360 (August 6, 2019, 3:06 PM EDT) — A Miami-based legal aid organization has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for failing to cough up documents about the procedures for children who “age out” of custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and are transferred to ICE detention. Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc. filed suit …
MIGRANT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS SPIRALS IN ICE DETENTION FACILITIES – POLITICO
BY RENUKA RAYASAM 07/21/2019 06:54 AM EDT Federal inspectors visiting a California migrant detention center made a shocking discovery last year: Detainees had made nooses from bedsheets in 15 of 20 cells in the facility they visited. The inspection revealed the extent of a largely unseen mental health crisis within the growing population of migrants who are being held in detention …