The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.
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Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.
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As others languished without FEMA’s help, Noem flew to Florida to tout the $11 million project and meet with the donor.
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“I feared for my life,” said William McNeil Jr., whose video of Jacksonville police attacking him went viral.
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After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one thing clear: This decision was based on no science, just vibes. In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, Ladapo told host Jake Tapper that officials did not undertake […]
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An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s decision ordering Florida and federal officials to begin winding down operations at Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades that opened in July. As I reported last month, in response to a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups, US District Judge Kathleen […]
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Critics slammed the move, calling the jail an environmental threat that “has been functioning as an extrajudicial site.”
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Currently, all states require schoolchildren to receive vaccines against polio, measles, and other diseases.
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The disclosure intensified existing anger over the university’s police partnership with ICE and ongoing labor disputes.
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Faculty Want Answers on University Supplying Equipment for “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
A judge ordered the notorious ICE jail to close pending environmental review. Florida officials have already appealed.
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A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days. Two weeks after US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, ordered a temporary pause on any […]
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The judge sided with plaintiffs who said the Everglades detention camp was significantly damaging the ecosystem.
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