Former Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller’s reputation was already in shambles before today. Miller was the communications director for Trump’s 2016 campaign and was in line to become White House press secretary but ultimately resigned after he admitted to having an affair with a Miami-based Trump staffer, A.J. Delgado, and fathering a lovechild with her.
This past spring, activists were unable to stop the Florida Republican Party from passing Senate Bill 168, a demonstrably racist “sanctuary city” ban that was originally pitched by an anti-immigrant extremist group. And so, a group of nine civil-rights organizations has teamed up with the City of South Miami to instead try to take down the new law in federal court.
Predictably, Florida Republicans are cowardly keeping their mouths shut today as Donald Trump doubles down on one of the most openly racist tirades he’s made during his already racist tenure as president.
President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement department is, according to reports, planning on launching immigration raids on Sunday in 10 cities — Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Miami.
The nation’s largest facility for unaccompanied immigrant children is holding more kids than it can safely accommodate during a low-category hurricane. That’s what Homestead officials told a delegation from Amnesty International during a tour of the facility earlier today.
Last month, President Donald Trump abruptly called off a series of planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in ten major U.S. cities after immigrant activists sounded the alarm. June 22, Trump tweeted he was delaying the raids for two weeks to give Congress time to fix issues at the southern border — or, in other words, to capitulate to his racist demands on immigration policy.
This past April 14, the Federal Election Commission sent former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez a letter asking what she’d done with $43,550 that had been donated to her 2018 general-election campaign for U.S. Congress. The FEC was asking, of course, because Rosen Gonzalez didn’t actually compete in that year’s general election…
Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon, who represents portions of Overtown, Wynwood, Little Haiti, and other areas of central Miami, will likely resign from his seat early to run for a Miami-Dade County Commission seat in 2020. His current city term ends in 2021, and he’s barred from running again due to term limits.
President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alex Acosta, used to be Miami’s top federal prosecutor. In his previous role, Acosta gave billionaire pedophile and alleged child rapist Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal so lenient it straight-up violated the law. Thanks to Acosta, Epstein was pretty much allowed to skate by despite the fact he had repeatedly been accused of raping children…
The politician who previously represented Homestead in Congress — former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo — seemingly did little to raise awareness about the kids inside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children. But the Democrat who replaced him, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, has made the detention center one of her main priorities.
Well, folks, it’s yet another day in Miami where a mildly significant rainstorm is bringing huge portions of the Magic City to a grinding halt! Who’s excited? Throw your hands in the air if you’re pumped for our pending climate apocalypse!
Neighbors are a lot like family members. You don’t really get to pick them, and if you get a bad one, you’re often stuck with said person for quite some time. Sometimes these fights escalate — neighbor-on-neighbor violence is so common that the Investigation Discovery channel has an entire (terrible) series devoted to the matter called Fear Thy Neighbor.
Opa-locka is a city that pretty much shouldn’t exist. The FBI raided City Hall in 2016. City services are broken to the point that straight-up human feces recently flooded city streets. To fix the mess, officials brought in ex-County Manager Merrett Stierheim, a man who’s seen his fair share of political shenanigans, but Stierheim quit and said the place wasn’t fixable. Some of the city’s own residents in 2017 tried to mount a (failed) campaign to dissolve Opa-locka entirely.
Miami is utterly sweltering today. Earlier this morning, WeatherUnderground reported that — with humidity taken into account — the temperature felt like 115 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Yet tons of immigrants are stuck in the heat this week at South Florida’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Miramar, where ICE keeps immigrants waiting outdoors in what is essentially a caged pen for hours at a time.
Former North Miami Police SWAT Officer Jonathan Aledda was convicted last month of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence after he tried to shoot at an autistic man, Arnaldo Rios Soto, and instead shot Rios Soto’s therapist, Charles Kinsey, in the leg in 2016.
Over the last handful of years, Miami Beach officials have pushed plans to blanket South Beach — South Florida’s top tourist destination — with a gigantic array of security cameras and police-monitored license plate readers. Civil liberty advocates have repeatedly warned that the city appears to be creating a gigantic…
In 2018, the Florida Democratic Party said it would stop taking donations from private, for-profit prison firms. So, after New Times first reported last month that the party had accepted a $10,000 check from inmate-transport company G4S Secure Solutions — a company that also runs private prisons in other countries — activists cried foul. Now, the party says it will return the money.
If trends continue, the Miami Heat is set to have a fantastic summer. The Heat entered this year’s free agency period with virtually zero salary-cap space, way too many athletic-but-ultimately-mediocre dudes crowding the lineup, and no clear superstar. They seemed destined for years of mediocrity.
Miami summers have a way of defeating the weak-willed. Locals, who already don’t go to the beach that much, truly stop sitting by the ocean. You start ordering takeout for dinner every night because it’s too hot to carry groceries outside. Walking your dog for 15 minutes will annihilate any hairstyle and force you to take a shower before doing anything else that day.
Prisoners, in general, should not be sitting in solitary confinement. It’s a form of torture. But they absolutely should not be sitting in solitary during a historic Miami heat wave, when the heat index says it feels hotter than 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
New York politics and Miami politics are not the same. This may seem like an obvious statement. But at a rally today for striking workers at Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio broke the most obvious rule of Miami politicking.
A subset of workers at Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — two of the largest economic engines in Miami-Dade and Broward counties — announced this morning that they will go on strike to demand better wages and working conditions at their respective airports.
