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Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – what we still don’t know about the…
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in…
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Alligator Alcatraz ‘an internment camp’
For the first time, Democratic lawmakers were allowed to tour U.S. President Donald Trump's sprawling Everglades immigrant detention center on Saturday. They said what they witnessed…
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The theater of cruelty: America’s immigration shame
On a sweltering July afternoon in the Florida Everglades, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem stood before a newly constructed immigration detention center newly built with…
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Caribbean diaspora braces for impact of first-ever U.S. remittance tax
President Donald Trump has officially signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The bill, passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives along razor-thin margins,…
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ denounced as epitome of GOP dehumanization and cruelty toward…
Rights advocates and Democratic officials across the United States this week are condemning the Trump administration and Florida Republicans' effort to construct a migrant detention…
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What are they afraid of?
Why are Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, and now also acting National Security Advisor, along with his cohorts in Congress—Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez, and, lest we forget,…
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Florida sued over DeSantis’s stand against direct democracy
Florida Decides Healthcare, a political committee and nonprofit that is fighting for expanded Medicaid eligibility in the Sunshine State, on Sunday sued the Florida secretary of state…
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Billboard critical of Cuban American pols goes up in Miami
A recently formed dark-money group, Keep Them Honest, is launching an ad campaign in Miami aimed at pressuring Republican politicians, specifically Secretary of State Marco Rubio and…
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Dehumanization and protest: Miami’s Krome Detention Center and beyond
"Please make this go viral. . . . Please help us."
Those are the words of Osiriss Azahael Vázquez Martínez in video messages he was able to record from the overcrowded Krome detention…
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Cowards!
Reflecting on 2016, when Donald Trump was initially campaigning for president, many doubted his chances of success. One of those opposing our current president was a senator from…
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