Draft of a proclamation affirming cooperation with immigration enforcement and ICE by the Sarasota Public School Board. It apparently will be voted on next week. Call the school board members there and tell them to vote no on this insanity.

Miami Beach resident posted online about the mayor. Police showed up at her door www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

As the Miami Police Department investigates claims that four officers received Rolex watches from former Mayor Francis Suarez, records reveal that two of the officers were quietly demoted last month.

Research shows inhuman conditions at Alligator Alcatraz: overflowing toilets with fecal matter seeping into where people sleep, limited access to showers, exposure to insects, lights on 24 hours, poor quality food and water, and lack of privacy, including cameras above toilets.

Amnesty International found in a new report that the use of harsh punishments at Alligator Alcatraz, like locking people outdoors in a two-by-two foot cage-like structure while their hands and feet are shackled to the ground, constitutes torture.

Bill has been filed to stop misuse of emergency decrees by the Governor of Florida. DeSantis has used an emergency decree he arbitrarily signed on January 2023 to disburse at least $350 million in no-bid contracts to vendors at Alligator Alcatraz. He renewed it twenty times now.

New from me: Florida bill seeks to stop ICE agents from operating while masked and without identification. Per Reagan appointed Judge William G. Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason, to terrorize Americans into quiescence… we have never tolerated an armed secret police.”

Props to lawmakers Angie Nixon and Carlos Guillermo Smith for taking up our idea for a bill doing the most basic thing: requiring that immigration agents show their faces and identify themselves. Will the Florida Legislature agree that an armed secret police should not be tolerated?

Farmworker asking for prayers as immigration stops their bus and systematically starts detaining them on their way to work. Happened this morning near the town of Ave Maria, Florida.

The officers involved in this detention say they feel like a “newborn giraffe with wobbly legs” when conducting immigration enforcement because their training consists of a “one hour class online”. You can’t make this up.

Here you have a Florida Fish & Wildlife officer detaining an individual who was fishing and admitting they have been directed to “check with immigration on anyone who gives us a passport and doesn’t appear to be a citizen”, which sounds a lot like racial profiling.

This is what happens to parked vehicles belonging to people who are detained when called for routine appointments at the Miramar (and other) ICE processing centers. Their vehicles are often towed, which is a racket for the towing companies involved.

The state of Florida is now removing the U.S. citizen arrest category from this dashboard tracking immigration arrests altogether, but we know they mistakenly detain U.S. citizens, as was the case of Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez in Leon County.

Miami New Times confirming that a big immigration enforcement operation is coming to South Florida, and deportation officers from out of state are headed to Miami this weekend to assist.

🚨Another big immigration enforcement operation coming to Florida: DHS is asking deportation officers from other states to head to Miami to "assist ERO Miami" with a 287g operation this weekend. Please be cautious.

A South Florida-based charter company appears to have operated the third-country deportation flight that sent ten migrants to Africa earlier this month.

“This incident raises fundamental questions about both the accuracy of Florida’s immigration enforcement data and the due process rights of everyone who resides in our state." Link gets you around the paywall...

In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.

Here we go again: Florida lawmaker wants to allow employers to legally pay certain types of workers less than the state minimum wage. This bill was defeated in the last legislative session due to public outcry.

NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

During my reporting, I noticed more than a dozen people listed as U.S. citizens were arrested, according to the immigration dashboard. After asking the state for an explanation, the number of U.S. citizens arrested suddenly changed to 1.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

After Miami New Times contacted Florida authorities to inquire about U.S. citizens being arrested by immigration enforcement, the figures in this state dashboard showing those arrests were significantly altered 👇

Masked ICE agents asking U.S. citizens for their papers, threatening them with dogs. The stuff of authoritarian governments.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

According to a Florida dashboard tracking state arrests of undocumented people, under 0.5% of those have a gang affiliation, demolishing claims of going after “criminals.” They have also detained a disturbingly high number of Guatemalans and Mexicans, signaling targeting of that community.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Not even the prospect of a $20 billion bailout paid by U.S. taxpayers is stabilizing Argentina after Milei’s peso/dollar manipulation failed. His sister (and chief of staff) is caught in a bribery scandal, and his top candidate was caught taking $200k from a narco. It’s over.

This is the failed libertarian govt in Argentina that could get a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout. Collapsed the economy by artificially propping its currency, ensnared in an ongoing bribery scandal, and one of their top candidates admitted receiving $200k from a narco.

What appears to be a transport bus and a GEO Group transport van going into Alligator Alcatraz yesterday.

The Trump admin wants to expand surveillance of social media accounts to deport people. This will for sure be a cash grab for private contractors, they will for sure target people for political opinions they don’t like, and AI is being weaponized to increase surveillance reach.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Another extrajudicial murder.

According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

Coast Guard plane flying from Louisiana to Alligator Alcatraz (TNT)

Bad news for Gov. Ron DeSastrous! Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope #Florida scandal investigation. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

This state-run model of immigration detention is becoming so secretive that the Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates Alligator Alcatraz, is refusing to disclose not just a list of people detained there, but also how many people are now detained at the site.

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more. My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

Florida has avoided conducting federal environmental impact studies when building and operating Alligator Alcatraz in environmentally protected land with a dark sky designation. Now that federal money is involved, there’s zero excuse to legally avoid a NEPA environmental study.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.” “It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

Florida’s going to use FEMA funds for Alligator Alcatraz, from the Shelter and Services program, to steer hundreds of millions of dollars to private sector vendors through no-bid contracts, while illegally attempting to avoid required federal environmental impact studies.

What a disgusting embarrassment this administration is. A bunch of criminal fascists.

The contractor in charge of overseeing scheduling of attorney appointments with detainees at Alligator Alcatraz has done inspections so inefficiently in the past that even ICE officials (of all people) have said these audits are “useless” and “very difficult to fail.”

Scholars of American Political Economy should be writing up the whole dark economy that is emerging around coercion and corruption.

Wrote about how Florida's efforts to avoid environmental impact studies when building an immigration detention camp in the Everglades are leading to a new model of immigration detention: the proliferation of state-run extrajudicial black sites across multiple states.