Immigration

"The ruling highlights what community organizations already knew: in their haste to build the nation's first state-run detention facility, the DeSantis Administration refused to consider the environmental impacts of the camp on sacred indigenous land," said the groups in a joint statement issued Friday.

A Judge on Thursday ordered the facility to wind down operations within two months.

"This is a landmark victory for the Everglades and countless Americans who believe this imperiled wilderness should be protected, not exploited," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, in a statement.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of the immigration detention center. The state quickly appealed the decision.

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

U.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region.

The judge ruled that claims about detainees lacking confidential access to lawyers or hearings were moot while transferring the remaining case to a different jurisdiction.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the truck driver, Harjinger Sing, entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2018 and obtained a commercial driver's license in California.

On a sweltering afternoon in the Everglades, the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center organized the service in protest of the reportedly harsh conditions inside the immigration detention center.

In one of Florida’s most conservative counties, the plan has drawn a tangle of reactions from those living within walking distance to Baker Correctional Institution.

Civil rights attorneys in Miami asked a judge to ensure detainees have confidential access to their lawyers. They also want the judge to identify an immigration court with jurisdiction over the center.

A line of deportation-themed shirts, hats and other knickknacks for sale on the state Republican Party website bore a logo similar to the natoinal hardware chain.