Bill giving broad powers to the governor to place organizations in a domestic terrorism list based on views and opinions has passed the Florida Legislature. This is the vote breakdown in the House:

Florida school enrollment is expected to be down by about 46,000 students this year. State demographers, in a January report, blamed the “chilling effects” of Trump’s immigration policies as a leading cause for the plunge.

Staff at the nation’s largest ICE detention site have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide.

Florida Legislature refuses to give hearings to bill banning immigration agents from wearing masks hiding their identities.

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Bill allowing Florida officials controlled by the governor to place organizations in a domestic terrorism list on the basis of views and opinions has passed the Florida Senate after amendments were adopted. Now it goes back to the Florida House

A federal judge wrote in a preliminary injunction that the First Amendment bars Gov. Ron DeSantis from continuing the troubling trend of using an executive office to make a political statement at the expense of others’ constitutional rights.

Cost projections of more than $645 million in two years for a port-a-potty company at the Alligator Alcatraz and Deportation Depot detention centers.

Legislation allowing the Florida Governor to place organizations in a domestic terrorism list without any prior criminal conviction of the group, its leaders, or its members, was just approved in the Florida House. It still has to be voted in the Florida Senate.

HB945 creates a “counterintelligence and counterterrorism” unit within Florida department of law enforcement that could spy on groups or individuals whose “actions, views, or opinions” are deemed “a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state”.

Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million taxpayer dollars per day on Alligator Alcatraz.

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

The level of disconnect from the political class on the U.S. cheerleading for this illegal war, and the vast majority of the public that does not want it, is disturbing.

Deeply evil.

A migrant in San Francisco is detained by ICE and can’t be physically present at an eviction hearing, meaning he could automatically lose the case.

Legislation allowing the Florida Governor to label organizations as domestic terrorists without any prior criminal conviction of the group, its leaders, or members continues to advance. Bills are HB 1472 and SB 1632. Call the office of House Speaker Danny Perez at 8507175000 to express opposition.

Protesters plan to demonstrate against Palantir on Tuesday, March 3, at the company’s new headquarters in Miami:

9 year old, with a valid tourist visa and hoping to visit Disney, was detained at Miami International Airport and held at the Dilley immigration detention center for four months.

ICE is reportedly planning to lease new office space in downtown Miami.

New from me: Miami voters elected a new mayor and reshaped the commission in large part as a rejection of the city’s signing of a 287g, police-ICE collaboration agreement. It’s now time for the city to exit that agreement.

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...