SOUTH MIAMI SUES TO BLOCK SANCTUARY CITY BAN, SAYS IT WILL DIVIDE POLICE AND RESIDENTS – MIAMI HERALD

BY JULIA INGRAM JULY 16, 2019 10:20 PM The city of South Miami and nine other organizations on Tuesday sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody challenging Florida’s new law banning sanctuary cities and requiring local law enforcement to comply with federal immigration policies. But South Miami, a city of approximately 12,000, accounts for a tiny fraction …

SOUTH MIAMI LEADS FIRST CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA LAW BANNING ‘SANCTUARY’ CITIES – WLRN

By DANIEL RIVERO • JUL 16, 2019 The first legal challenge to Florida’s controversial law banning so-called “sanctuary” cities and counties was filed on Tuesday against Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody in the Southern District of Florida. Leading the federal lawsuit is the City of South Miami. The new law SB 168 requires local police departments, sheriff’s offices and Corrections Departments …

FLORIDA SUED OVER SANCTUARY POLICY BAN – FOX 35

Posted Jul 16 2019 12:39PM EDT APOPKA, Fla. (FOX 35 ORLANDO) – The city of South Miami and a coalition of immigrant advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday over a new law that forces local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration officials. Activists representing farmworkers, Haitian immigrants, and asylum seekers warned the new law banning “sanctuary” policies is …

GROUPS SUE TO BLOCK NEW FLORIDA IMMIGRATION LAW – ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD

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 …

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS JOIN SOUTH MIAMI IN LAWSUIT TO STOP FLORIDA’S “SANCTUARY CITY” BAN – MIAMI NEW TIMES

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 …

IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST NEW FLORIDA ‘SANCTUARY CITIES’ LAW – TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT

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, …

IMMIGRATION ACTIVISTS FEAR DEPORTATION SWEEP WILL PICK UP THIS WEEK – ABC 10 UP TO 2,000 UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ACROSS 9 CITIES EXPECTED TO BE DEPORTED

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 …

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP KIDS AT THE HOMESTEAD MIGRANT CAMP – MIAMI NEW TIMES

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 …