Marlene Jaggernauth had been a legal U.S. resident for 27 years when the ICE agents came knocking on her door in 2003. Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsThey arrested the Trinidad native on a shoplifting charge from six years earlier, took her from her four young children, and moved her from county jail to county jail around Florida for a full year while her case was adjudicated. Her situation was terrible enough, but she couldn't believe what she saw during her time in Florida's ICE prisons: mentally i
LocalOnce-great writer visits once-great newsroom. [Herald]The death of two infants in March at Miami Children's Hospital is being blamed on bad plumbing that spread a virus. [NBCMiami]More poll numbers confirm what everyone knows: There is a snowball's chance in Hell that Marco Rubio is going to win the primary. [NakedPolitics]$15K is being offered to anyone who has information about a Florida panther shooting that happened in April. [CBS4]Well, this is nice. Mayor Manny Diaz gets to be on a 16
Thanks to crotch bombers and death panels, immigration reform hasn't been the topic du jour in the Beltway since Obama took office.
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Jenny Aguilar, a Honduran who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years but now faces deportation, is fasting in Homestead along with four other activists.​But that could change thanks to an ongoing fast by five activists in Homestead. The protest, which aims to stop all deportations of immigrants with families in America, has picked up
