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By Liane Morejon – Reporter, Trent Kelly – Reporter, Andrea Torres – Digital Reporter/Producer Posted: 11:11 AM, July 14, 2019 MIRAMAR, Fla. – The advocates of migrants with deportation orders in South Florida are on high alert this week. President Donald Trump warned earlier this week that agents’ enforcement crackdown was going to start Sunday. The operation aims to net about 2,000 migrants who have not complied with final deportation …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN, BIANCA PADRÓ OCASIO, MICHAEL WILNER, AND DANIEL CHANG JULY 14, 2019 07:40 AM The immigration enforcement raids that President Donald Trump said would start Sunday, with mass arrests expected in Miami and other major cities, never got under way as immigrant families with removal orders and others targeted for deportation remained on alert throughout the day, some of them …
BY LAUTARO GRINSPAN JULY 13, 2019 03:06 PM The deportation raids set to start in 10 cities across the country — including in Miami — on Sunday risk putting a new player front-and-center in the national controversy over migrant detention: hotel rooms. The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, originally slated to begin late last month before being delayed, could sweep up …
JERRY IANNELLI | JULY 13, 2019 | 9:00AM President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement department is, according to reports, planning on launching immigration raids on Sunday in ten cities — Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Miami. Details about the proposed raids are still scarce, but Trump appears to be targeting about 2,000 people who have …
MIAMI – In celebration of Emancipation Day, community partners to host a Citizenship & Voter Registration Drive on Saturday August 10, 2019, 10am to 2pm, at the Church of the Ascension, 11201 SW 160th Street, in SW Miami Dade County. Experienced legal and immigration professionals will be on hand to provide free guidance on completing naturalization applications. Eligible applicants, those with …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JULY 12, 2019 06:00 AM At the 3,200-bed Homestead detention center for unaccompanied immigrant youths, one 15-year-old boy is an aberration: He has lived in the United States virtually his entire life. Far from being a recent arrival at the southern border, the teen entered the country when he was a 9-month-old infant; he has lived …
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO JULY 02, 2019 04:56 PM The Border Patrol has bigger failings to fix than some of its agents’ participation in a secret, hateful Facebook group exposed by the investigative news organization ProPublica. Consider these: ▪ Agents are still separating children from family members at the border despite an executive order signed by President Donald Trump reneging on his own directive to do …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JUNE 28, 2019 05:39 PM The United States government can resume paying for educational, legal, and recreational services at facilities like the Homestead detention center, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Congress passed — and President Donald Trump has indicated he will sign — a $2.88 billion emergency supplemental appropriations legislation this week. This comes …
MANUEL MADRID | JUNE 27, 2019 | 8:00AM Months before President Donald Trump announced plans for massive immigration raids, members of his administration were busy cooking up plans to deport asylum-seeking families released into the United States. Their solution? Create expedited dockets for newly arrived families in ten immigration courts in cities including Miami, Houston, San Francisco, and Chicago. These “rocket dockets” fast-track the …
By ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ & CHRIS REMINGTON JUN 25, 2019 Democratic candidates are in South Florida ahead of the first Democratic presidential debates taking place Wednesday and Thursday nights in Miami. The topic of immigration is already front and center. Candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, and Eric Swalwell, a representative from California, have planned visits to the Homestead Childhood Detention Facility, …
