A whole lot of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are visiting the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children this week. Not all of them, however, appear to have concrete plans of action as to what to do about the kids inside the shelter. But during a visit today, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a straightforward demand: Shut the place down.
Over the last few weeks, lawyers have reported harrowing stories of alleged neglect, health hazards, and abuse inside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the largest child-migrant compound run by the Trump administration. Attorneys claimed bathrooms were covered in mildew.
A judge nearly threw Carnival Corporation’s top executives in jail last April, after the company got caught dumping oily pollution into the sea despite being explicitly ordered by a court to stop doing so. Ultimately, the world’s largest cruise company pleaded guilty to probation violations and agreed to pay a $20 million fine earlier this month over the pollution dumps.
As it stands, Jane Castor currently has two full-time jobs in two different major cities: She’s the Miami Police Department’s federal oversight monitor and she’s now the mayor of Tampa, a city of almost 400,000 people. Even before Castor won the Tampa mayoral race in March, some Miami officials weren’t all that happy with her performance — and now a police-oversight board has formally asked to fire Castor from her position as federal oversight monitor.
In February, the Florida Democratic Party accepted a $10,000 donation from G4S Secure Solutions, a private firm that runs immigrant-detention facilities in other countries and transports American inmates between prison facilities.
After nearly three years, Charles Kinsey has finally gotten some semblance of justice after being shot by a North Miami Police officer in July 2016. Kinsey’s case shocked the world: A bystander filmed as Kinsey lay flat on his back with his arms in the air and begged cops not to shoot.
As President Donald Trump launches his 2020 reelection campaign, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to raid the homes of undocumented immigrants in multiple cities — including Miami — this weekend. The Miami Herald and Washington Post confirmed the federal government plans to target undocumented immigrants in predawn raids in as many as ten major U.S. cities.
In 2015, an underage Miami teen came forward to tell a harrowing story: She said she’d essentially been kidnapped by a Hialeah Police officer, locked in a windowless room in the police station, and forced to strip off her clothes while the cop, Jesus “Jesse” Menocal Jr., allegedly touched himself through his pants.
The Magic City Innovation District is already deeply controversial in Miami — a group of rich developers, including one guy indicted in the national college-bribery scandal — want to put a $1 billion luxury complex in the middle of Little Haiti, one of Miami’s most historic immigrant communities.
President Donald Trump’s first 2020 campaign rally in Orlando last night was little more than a rehash of his 2016 greatest hits. He stood at a lectern and let various English-adjacent sentences tumble from his swollen, bass-like mouth. Various neofascist groups showed up to chant stuff outside, and TV news channels ran wall-to-wall coverage of Trump babbling and saying “fake news” over and over again.
A jury late last night convicted former North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence after he shot Charles Kinsey, an unarmed behavioral therapist who was filmed begging cops not to shoot him, in the leg in 2016.
In February 2016, state inmate Jimmy Jones had been temporarily transferred to the South Florida Reception Center, a prison facility west of Doral, for a medical visit. His mom came to visit February 20, and they met outside in a courtyard known as Visiting Park.
June 26 and 27, a whopping 20 Democratic candidates for president will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts just north of downtown Miami in the first debates of the 2020 election cycle. They will bicker, slam Donald Trump, and almost certainly embarrass themselves by…
As of mere days ago, it appeared David Hogg and Kyle Kashuv — two survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre who became activists on opposite sides of the political spectrum — were about to attend Harvard University together.
Friday, June 14, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state’s deeply controversial anti-“sanctuary city” bill, SB 168, into law. He did so in the blood-red Florida Panhandle, and there were so many fans who showed up that DeSantis reportedly had to find a larger venue.
February 5, the private security firm G4S Solutions — a for-profit company founded in Coral Gables that transports inmates for the government — donated $10,000 to the Florida Democratic Party. The money came through G4S’s political action committee.
Four fishermen say the Coast Guard trapped them at sea for a month. They are from Jamaica but were fishing near the Haitian coast when they say American forces destroyed their vessel and trapped them on an uncovered boat deck for a month.
When Miami cops screw up, civilians are typically the ones who wind up getting hurt. But in a previously unrevealed incident from January 4, an utterly boneheaded move wound up injuring one of Miami’s finest.
June is Pride Month. The 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub, which occurred three years ago today, killed 49 people at an event held for gay Latino men. Yet Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — or someone in his administration — decided it was necessary this year to scrub mentions of the LGBTQ community from the state’s yearly Pulse Memorial Day proclamation.
Miami is, mythically, a place where immigrants from around the world come to work, save money, and build wealth. In reality, though, it appears the local and national economies are so unbelievably broken that people are mostly coming here to work themselves into the ground.
Within the last 30 days, lawyers have alleged that children inside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children are miserable. The Trump administration responded by cutting away the kids’ already paltry recess time, English classes, and even legal aid.
Politician-shaped asshole Walter “Mike” Hill is a bizarre and upsetting dude. The state representative is from an extremely right-wing section of Florida — District 1 of the House, AKA the part of the Panhandle that borders Alabama on two sides.
