Florida Immigration

Then-Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit in September 2021 as she and Gov. Ron DeSantis made a high-profile issue of criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of immigration issues.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he is in talks with law enforcement in Panama City about opening a "Panhandle Pokey" to house ICE detainees.

Faced with an indefinite amount of time in detention, Maria Martinez chose to return to Mexico instead of fight her deportation case.

The lawsuit filed Friday contends the state doesn't have the authority to run detention centers and that the officers who are working at the Everglades facility lack federally required training.

Panelists criticized what they say are extreme tactics under President Donald Trump and his administration.

More than 200 Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador's maximum security prison in March, including Frengel Reyes, who was living in Tampa with his wife and is now back in his homeland without her.

In a letter to law enforcement agencies, Uthmeier said he could not prevent police from enforcing the new immigration law “where there remains no judicial order that properly restrains you from doing so.”

The Notary Kiosk offers a range of services and is run by Sara Roman, who wants to help people regardless of their immigration status.

About 50,000 Hondurans could be forced to leave the U.S. once their Temporary Protected Status expires in September. Longtime residents say they aren't ready to uproot their lives.

In Florida, where the governor has promised to lead the immigration crackdown, increased arrests mirror the national trend, especially for those with no criminal background.

A state plan to house as many as 1,000 immigrants with criminal records in a remote Everglades area "fenced-in" by alligators and pythons brings protestors to abandoned former jetport area off U.S. 41. The area, inside Big Cypress National Preserve, retains special and sacred meaning to Native Americans and conservationists.

The Clearwater jail serves as the Tampa Bay region's designated holding center for those suspected of being in the country illegally.