One visiting member, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, called conditions at the detention camp abhorrent. “When those doors opened .. what I saw made my heart sink.” Last week, lawmakers were finally permitted to inspect the new Everglades detention camp in Florida, after being initially blocked from entering the site...
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One man jailed at the Florida incarceration camp said officials even confiscated his Bible: “They said here there is no right to religion” Members of Congress have the legal authority to conduct oversight of ICE detention facilities. That’s not up for debate or interpretation, it’s simply the law. End...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, at a Miami rally, Donald Trump continued his relentless and lurid focus on immigration lies while reiterating his plans for mass roundups and deportations. The remarks follow the release of the Republican Party’s official 2024 platform, which reflects Trump’s full takeover of the GOP and...
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Eight Florida farmworkers were killed following a catastrophic collision near Dunnellon this week. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the deceased were among 53 farmworkers who were off to start the day’s work at a family-owned peanut and watermelon farm when their bus was struck by a truck that...
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This week, the Supreme Court temporarily delayed the implementation of Texas’s S.B.4, the extreme “show me your papers” law that empowers every law enforcement officer to question the citizenship of any Texas resident and detain them. While a sound-minded federal judge initially blocked the law, that hold was lifted...
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House Republicans are barreling ahead with their sham impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban American refugee whose family fled Nazi Germany. Despite zero evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors, zero testimony from fact witnesses, and loud pushback from legal experts, former GOP officials,...
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now officially out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary race after his overhyped run for the White House crashed and burned following a distant second-place finish in Iowa last week. There’s no overstating the harm and danger his policies and rhetoric will continue to...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has yet again called for the return of the Trump administration’s cruel and traumatic family separation policy, which tore more than 5,500 children from their families and resulted in one of the darkest chapters in modern U.S. history. While the Biden administration has reunited...
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The next Republican presidential debate is set to take place in Miami, Florida on Nov. 8., where we’ll hear repetitions of the extreme, cruel, and unworkable immigration policies from the previous debates in Wisconsin and California. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will likely try to dominate the night since the...
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Oct 16, 2023
A pesar de todas las adversidades que enfrentan los migrantes en su trayecto hacia el norte, hay situaciones de plena solidaridad con otros en situaciones de peligro, a quienes incluso salvan la vida sin importar exponer la suya. Lamentablemente son más los casos que tienden a hundir en una...
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