Just weeks after a pool boy was accidentally shot by an iguana hunter in their neighborhood, two enterprising Boca Raton teens began stuffing mailboxes with flyers advertising the pair’s extermination services.
Federal agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.
Under constant international pressure for the hellish conditions they helped create in Venezuela, members of the regime of strongman Nicolás Maduro never pass up an opportunity to point out the flaws of nations criticizing them.
As Floridians continue to ponder the idea of a not-so-distant future in which weed is legal, Democratic state Rep. Shevrin Jones has moved for more sudden action. Yesterday he introduced a bill that would decriminalize possession of certain quantities of marijuana in Florida.
For Venezuelans enduring widespread food shortages and the daily desperation caused by hyperinflation, a months-long wait for hundreds of thousands of dollars in promised humanitarian aid just got a little longer.
The State Department’s Summer Work Travel Program exposes foreign college students to serious risks, including human and sex trafficking. Companies in Florida, which is one of the top states receiving program participants, have used the program to pay less in wages and health benefits.
When he’s not busy speeding up the slow-motion collapse of what was once South America’s wealthiest nation, Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro enjoys engaging in the occult and esoteric. The dictator’s penchant for the supernatural is one of the worst-kept secrets in Caracas, though his regime maintains he’s a faithful Christian.
In 2017, James Merrill of Massachusetts was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a massive pyramid scheme that fleeced roughly 1.8 million people out of more than $3 billion. Merrill and his partner, Carlos Wanzeler, made off like bandits with millions in illegitimate gains they dumped into 21 South Florida properties.
For every high-decibel speech delivered by President Donald Trump on the evils of the Nicolás Maduro regime, for every raucous call to solidarity with the people of Venezuela, there has been an equally deafening silence when it comes time to help Venezuelans who have fled from the chaos in their country.
A new report from New American Economy, a bipartisan, pro-immigration group, offers a clearer picture of the economic impact of immigrants in Miami: how much they pay in taxes, how many of them are homeowners and entrepreneurs, and how essential they are to various local industries.
With its new rule eliminating asylum for most migrants at the southwestern border with Mexico, the Trump administration has bolted shut one of the few remaining legal entryways for Venezuelans seeking safety in the Unites States.
South Florida’s high ranking when it comes to prosecuting child sex trafficking might come as a surprise given the district’s controversial deal-making with Jeffrey Epstein, brokered by former Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. Nationwide, such prosecutions have plunged over the past two years despite overall federal prosecutions for crimes spiking under the Trump administration.
A video shared this week by a local urban environmentalist shows a seemingly well-fed and fully grown coyote wandering the streets of El Portal. Police have advised residents to keep their pets safe indoors.
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.
Two years ago, an Israeli theater student, Elizabeth “Ellie” Goldenberg, went on an airboat ride only one day after graduating from the University of Miami. The trip began innocently enough, but five minutes into the ride, the boat tipped over while trying to navigate around a disabled vessel. In an instant, the passengers were thrown from the airboat and Goldenberg was crushed beneath the engine cage. A toxicology report later showed the airboat operator had high levels of THC in his system.
For most Brickell denizens, word of a new condo or hotel hardly turns heads anymore. Skyscrapers and midrise buildings have long become part of the scenery in the neighborhood after decades of intermittent construction booms transformed the once-sleepy residential area into a jutting skyline.
Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro oversaw thousands of extrajudicial killings, countless arbitrary political detentions, torture, and the use of excessive force against protesters, according to a new United Nations report. And that was just in the past 18 months.
The political price of being a cog in the Trump administration’s immigrant detention and deportation machine is getting steeper. Outrage over the callous treatment of immigrant families in the U.S. has distilled into outrage toward the companies willing to help the federal government carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.
A recent pool party in southwest Miami-Dade County was cut short by the sound of gunshots, as attendees trampled over each other in a rush to find cover. Miraculously, no one was hit. One county official has blamed the shooting, which remains under investigation, on an unlikely source: LED light bulbs.
The scene outside the Arsht Center last night was, predictably, a circus. As part one of the 20-candidate Democratic presidential debates got underway, the Proud Boys, a Q-Anon guy, and several proud “deplorables” mingled with Twitter castaway Laura Loomer on one side of Biscayne Boulevard. On the other side stood the Miami Democratic Socialists of America, climate activists in swim goggles, “Hands Off Venezuela” folks, and a guy with a sign comparing abortion to the Holocaust.
Months before President Donald Trump announced plans for massive immigration raids, members of his administration were busy cooking up plans to deport asylum-seeking families released into the U.S. Their solution? Create special expedited dockets for newly arrived families in ten immigration courts in cities including Miami, Houston, San Francisco, and Chicago.
Hope gave way to further disillusionment last week for a group of exiled Venezuelans living in Miami, as word surfaced that the Trump administration’s interest in the crisis-stricken country was reportedly waning.
