Claudio Rojas is sitting in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, quite likely for political reasons. Rojas, an Argentine immigrant, was detained by ICE and later reported on conditions inside the Broward Transitional Center, a for-profit ICE detention facility in Pompano Beach run by the Boca Raton corporation GEO Group…
On a Saturday last October, Raymond Ortega and Toni Llerena stopped to order some food at the Burger King Whopper Bar in South Beach. They were sitting down with their meals when an employee asked them to leave, saying that section of the restaurant was closing.
The date was June 26, 2003. The NBA draft was taking place in Madison Square Garden. The Miami Heat held the fifth-overall selection. The pool included some of the most talented players ever. it was important the Heat get this one right. In retrospect, no one, not even the Miami Heat,…
In a piece of news that begs the question, “What the hell were you doing beforehand?,” the FBI yesterday announced in a press release that it’s creating a permanent task force to investigate money-laundering and corruption in Miami’s real estate sector. Per the FBI release, the new “Miami International Corruption Squad” will…
Sometime after noon today, a plane went down 23 miles southeast of Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately received a notification and quickly orchestrated a rescue mission. Luckily, the Regal Princess cruise ship was in the area on its way to St. Thomas.
After scrutiny from New Times and other major media outlets, Caliburn International — the for-profit investment company that, among other projects, runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children near Miami — has killed its plans to sell $100 million in shares on the stock market.
Hundreds of activists plan to rally this morning to shut down the Homestead Detention Center for unaccompanied minors. The center, which is the only one of its type in the nation, will soon — or maybe already has — double in capacity to 2,350, as a tent city in Tornillo…
Still dressed in her school uniform, Naika Venant went live on Facebook at 6:12 p.m. November 10, 2016. Earlier that day, the 13-year-old foster child from Miami had stolen a phone from her caseworker. Now, as an audience of three watched her video feed, she clumsily navigated the iPhone’s camera,…
For the second straight year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Miami field area saw the largest proportional spike in immigrant arrests, according to a New Times review of ICE data. ICE released its yearly arrest and deportation statistics for the 2018 fiscal year last December — apprehensions in ICE’s Miami “area of…
All stories of fraud, theft, and scumbaggery flow through Miami at some point. And there is maybe no bigger swindle in U.S. history than Donald Trump’s hoodwinking of the American people in 2016 — a man with a brain made from congealed Wendy’s Frosties managed to win just enough states…
One of the most pressing issues for the pro-Trump wing of the internet is that it’s getting increasingly difficult to be racist and misinformed online nowadays. Since 2016, the world’s major social networking sites — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. — have cracked down on hate speech, racism, propaganda, and conspiracy theories…
Jose Oliva is the first Florida House of Representatives speaker from Miami since Marco Rubio. Tomorrow, as he gavels in the state’s legislative session, the 46-year-old Hialeah Republican faces some of the thorniest issues in state history: pot, guns in school, and felon voting rights, to name a…
It’s no secret the Miami area is in desperate need of affordable housing. The city often ranks among the worst for renters; research shows Miamians spend more of their incomes on housing than residents of any other U.S. city. Wages aren’t keeping up with housing prices. Meanwhile, the city has…
The Heat’s expensive veteran-rich roster cannot out-tank putrid teams like the Phoenix Suns or New York Knicks. Two-thirds of the season is gone, and the results are clear — the team is terrible at being terrible. Atlanta, which Miami plays tonight at home, has two first-round picks ahead of…
Matt Gaetz, Florida congressman and human worm, had a hell of a week. He defended someone associated with the alt-right, all but certainly committed a literal crime on Twitter, and topped it all off by defending a billionaire child-rapist. The sad part, of course, is that a lot of…
Miami-Dade County is not affordable. Rent is astronomical compared to the median income. But in many cases, lawmakers are hamstrung. They can force developers to set aside affordable units, but they can’t build complexes with reasonable rents.
The University of Miami’s Infectious Disease Elimination Act (IDEA) Exchange gives clean syringes to heroin and opiate users as long as they deliver dirty needles to the clinic. The program gets used needles off the street and cuts overdose rates as well as disease transmission.
Behind bars, male inmates masturbating in front of female employees is so common, there’s a word for it: gunning. Ceneca Valdez, a counselor at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, says she experienced it repeatedly on the job, along with vulgar comments and gestures. When she brought the problem…
It’s been a long work week and you deserve a reward — something you didn’t even know you needed in your life until now — something that will make you laugh at first, then smile, and in the end, probably cry tears of joy. You deserve a video of Dwyane…
Glyphosate is a popular ingredient in weed-killing herbicides because it’s extremely effective. It’s also a well-known pollutant — researchers have found the chemical in samples of the air we breathe, the food we eat, and even the beer and wine we buy from the liquor store.
Florida inmate Lazaro Galvan was in his dormitory at the Dade Correctional Institution in December 2017 when guards asked him to pack up his things. Galvan left his property at the officers’ station so it could be checked for contraband and was taken into confinement. After the search, Galvan…
The Glades County Detention Center, a prison facility about two hours northwest of downtown Miami, nearly had to close in 2014. It wasn’t getting enough inmates to justify its existence. But the county jail found a new cash cow in Donald Trump, whose deportation crackdown has swelled the…
