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.
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.
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.
Thirty miles south of the stage where Democratic candidates will appear for this week’s presidential debates, thousands of children are being held in the country’s only unlicensed, privately run shelter for immigrant kids. At the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, some have described crying themselves to sleep or worrying they might never be released.
Activists hoping to get recreational pot on the 2020 ballot are undeterred by passage of Florida House Bill 5, the latest Republican attempt to subvert the people’s will. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law on June 7 in what the South Florida Sun Sentinel described as an “arrogant…
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.
Now that the NBA Draft is in the rear-view mirror, objects seen through the Miami Heat’s windshield are coming into much better focus. Ready or not, the 2019-20 season will have a common theme — out with the old and in with the new. After a decade-and-a-half of…
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.
Summer officially began less than a week ago, but temperatures in South Florida are already somewhere between oppressively smothering and absolutely boiling. Yesterday, the high reached 98 degrees, a record for Miami for that date.
Monifah Brown and her friends thought they’d found the perfect place to stay during their Miami Beach vacation. The Ocean Five Condo Hotel was right on Ocean Drive, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the beach. Brown, a 24-year-old from London, made a reservation on Booking.com for three weeks in September.
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.
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.
Rich Wilkerson Jr.’s footwear was modest — at least by megachurch preacher standards. In a photo snapped earlier this month at the Vous Conference, an annual gathering held by his church in Miami, the celebrity pastor wore a pair of Air Force 1s valued at about $80. Beside him, another preacher donned a $2,400 pair of Nikes.
You know about the “drippy” Miami Vice-like suit he wore to the draft, but you’re about to know a whole lot more about the Heat’s newest future core piece to a championship team.
This week, the Democratic Party will hold its first presidential debates, a two-day affair Wednesday and Thursday at the Adrienne Arsht Center presenting 20 candidates. And not a single one has shown they can energize voters the same way Donald Trump gasses up his racist base to go to the polls.
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.
ICE tiene planes de llevar a cabo redadas en hogares de inmigrantes indocumentados en varias ciudades — incluyendo a Miami — este fin de semana.
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 day before Father’s Day in 2017, Ramon Bueno was driving through an intersection when a Miami police car driven by Officer Lucas Rodrigues blew through a red light and slammed into Bueno’s driver’s side door. The impact was so powerful that the two cars spun out of control and crashed into a car stopped at the light.
The Miami Heat headed into Thursday night’s NBA Draft holding the 13th overall selection, a newly acquired second-round pick (44th overall pick) they acquired in a Wednesday trade from the Atlanta Hawks, and an obvious need for a young, athletic player. With Dwyane Wade retired, bloated contracts galore, and little to no salary-cap room, the Heat needed an exciting player who could contribute right away.
