Immigration

DeSantis said he's glad Florida can take a back seat in the Trump administration's war to quash undocumented immigration during a Brevard County press conference.

It reports vendors were told detainees would be moved from the facility by the start of June.

The protocol, which federal sources say is rolling out across the country, deals with ICE’s 287(g) program, which authorizes specially certified local law officers to carry out certain federal immigration enforcement functions

A bombshell article from the New York Times reports Florida and the Trump administration are in early talks to close the detention center.

In total, FDEM has spent $458.5 million in emergency funds on illegal immigration enforcement in the past year.

Florida Highway Patrol is leading efforts statewide to locate and arrest immigrants without legal status. A review of available numbers finds that approximately one in five arrests by troopers occurred in Palm Beach County. WLRN sought to learn why the focus has fallen heavier on the county than Broward and Miami-Dade, which have larger immigrant populations.

The mass deportations under the Trump administration have been heavily chronicled, and Florida is among the states with the most immigration arrests and removals.

The outcry follows comments from Rodney Barreto, chair of the Miami FIFA World Cup Host Committee, who told The Athletic this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured him that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were "not going to be at the stadium."'

The proposal from the Florida Department of Education would require state colleges to check all students admitted into an institution are citizens or legally allowed to be in the country. It would affect 28 public state colleges.

The federal government is offering local law enforcement incentives to join a program that gives their officers authority to make immigration arrests. Police leaders say the funds, which include money for salaries, equipment and vehicles, are enticing.

Critics warn that what makes this kind of technology attractive to law enforcement — its ability to rapidly merge and analyze disparate data sources — threatens to erode individuals’ privacy.

Just days after the court heard arguments for restoring Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz urged justices to grant the extension.