In January, Americans for Immigrant Justice — one of the most prominent immigrant-rights activist and legal groups in Florida — filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the federal government for what sounded, at least at the time, like basic information.
City Girls are one of 2019’s breakout hip-hop acts. After they were featured on Drake’s recent hit “In My Feelings,” the group’s subsequent singles — “Twerk,” featuring Cardi B, and “Act Up” — have essentially become the biggest songs of the year not named “Old Town Road.”
Saturday morning, a white-supremacist terrorist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, sprayed the building with bullets, and killed 22 people while injuring 25 others. The shooter left a manifesto online stating he targeted the Walmart because he hates immigrants and wanted to kill as many as possible.
Cesar Sayoc, the pro-Trump Miami resident who briefly terrorized the nation by sending a series of mail bombs to prominent Democrats last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today in Manhattan federal court, according to multiple news outlets.
Wayne Messam is, for reasons that are difficult to explain, still running for president. When he announced his run, the mayor of tiny Miramar, Florida, tried to position himself as a Pete Buttigieg-style outsider, the sort of political newcomer who wouldn’t be indebted to Washington elites and could spout tough truths on the campaign trail.
State Sen. Joe Gruters, the chair of the Florida Republican Party, announced yesterday that he’s planning an immigration tour to ask would-be voters what new policies they want the all-powerful Florida GOP to enact in the coming years.
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam wanted to be the Democrats’ next Pete Buttigieg — a long-shot, small-town mayor who could quote-unquote “tell it like it is” and talk his way into becoming president. But Messam’s bid is failing horribly.
Miami International Airport is a landing pad for people from every corner of the globe. Compared to, say, an airport in Montana, the clientele and staff at MIA are about as multicultural as they come. So after two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at Miami-Dade’s primary airport this week were caught…
Dan Bilzerian, the pro-Trump Instagram star who is essentially a humanoid version of a Monster Energy drink can, is set to host an event at LIV, Miami’s most famous nightclub, this Saturday night. Generally speaking, Bilzerian is the exact type of person whom LIV would want as a host: He’s famous, he’s rich, he’s a gigantic asshole, and he loves to shoot guns and hang out with models.
Miami officials seem hellbent on paving over one of the city’s last vibrant immigrant communities. Activists in Little Haiti for years have been pushing back against plans to build the Magic City Innovation District — a 17-acre luxury living and shopping complex that is unlike anything else in the working-class neighborhood of Little Haiti.
Lately, it seems like Miami can’t go long without a cretin getting fired for hanging a noose at his/her/their respective job. In 2017, for example, multiple Miami Fire-Rescue employees were terminated after they were caught hanging a noose over a black co-worker’s family photos.
Over the past ten years, no single state saw more of its residents stuck without electricity than Florida. Between 2008 and 2018, more than 25.3 million Floridians experienced power outages.
In what has become a recurring theme over the past few years, the Miami Police Department is, once again, struggling with theft and missing property. According to internal documents obtained by New Times, the department recently warned its officers about valuables left inside their cruisers, because four were burgled between July 6 and 24.
Earlier this year, an estimated 3,000 kids sat inside the Homestead child-migrant compound waiting to be reunited with sponsors and family members around the country. But now, the facility is rapidly shedding children. This is, possibly, because the facility can only hold 1,200 kids safely during a low-level hurricane, and hurricane season began June 1.
Rumors have swirled for weeks that the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the single largest detention center for migrant kids in America, may be closing its doors permanently. Mere months ago, the facility held roughly 3,000 children, but in recent weeks, the facility has rapidly slashed its population.
Today is the last Friday in July, which means one of two things: You’re a committed Masshole prepping for tonight’s meandering ride through town, or you’re dreading getting stuck for a half-hour on the Venetian Causeway because a parade of hooting Critical Mass bicyclists is streaming across the road.
K.T.’s trip aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise in 2015 was supposed to have been a celebration. She was traveling with her two sisters and grandparents. It was the day after Christmas. When she stepped aboard the Oasis of the Seas to begin a seven-day cruise December 26, she was just 15 years old.
Katherine Fernandez Rundle has been Miami-Dade County’s top prosecutor since 1993. In that time, she has won six straight reelection bids. Because of the idiosyncratic nature of Miami-Dade politics, in many cases she ran unopposed.
Donald Trump’s many defenders in Florida — Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Matt Gaetz, et cetera — are currently twisting themselves into pretzel-knots to avoid admitting the Preiisident’s tweets, words, and general demeanor are brazenly racist and dangerous. He told four congresswomen of color to leave…
This past July 1, Florida legalized hemp — the part of the cannabis plant that isn’t psychoactive and can be used to make rope, paper, all sorts of food, and CBD oil. But the new law is also leading to a less expected consequence: It’s changing the way cops conduct drug enforcement.
Miami is dealing with another round of political death threats. Last year, Miamian Cesar Sayoc infamously sent pipe bombs to a host of Democratic activists and lawmakers. Then, this past April, a Broward County man, John Kless, was arrested for leaving voicemails threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and Reps. Eric Swalwell, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
Just after 3:30 p.m. May 27, 2018, 29-year-old Yoinis Cruz Peña was driving his black 2008 Kawasaki north on the Rickenbacker Causeway at high speed. His wife, Yailen Gonzalez, was on the back. They slammed into a retaining wall, and Cruz Peña died.
