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  ICE Is Getting Legal Advice From South Florida's Private-Prison Giant, Emails Show

  December 10 at 8:30 a.m.

  Before the federal government sued California in an attempt to open the state to private-prison contractors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought the advice of GEO Group, the Boca Raton-based, multibillion-dollar private-detention-facility corporation. Mother Jones broke news of the close ties between GEO and ICE's legal team this past Friday. New Times has...

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  Republicans Are Already Trying to Stop Felons From Voting

  December 7 at 7:59 a.m.

  The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida's racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned  — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don't want to...

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  Miami's Immigrant-Asylum Denials Hit 18-Year High in 2018, Data Shows

  December 6 at 2:59 p.m.

  In both sad and entirely predictable news, immigration-asylum applications in Miami were denied at rates  virtually unseen in two decades, according to data released today by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a group at Syracuse University. Immigration officials denied 86 percent of asylum applications...

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  Critics Slam Florida Senate President for Taking Cushy Job With Private-Prison Giant and ICE Contractor

  December 5 at 8:24 a.m.

  A whole host of civil-rights advocates believe that the private, for-profit prison industry should not exist. But former Florida State Senate President Joe Negron appears to, ahem, lean in the opposite direction: Politico Florida first reported yesterday that the outgoing Negron will take a cushy gig as...

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  The Trump Administration Let Florida Make It Harder to Pay for Health Care

  December 4 at 8:26 a.m.

  Florida currently ranks 45th of the 50 states when it comes to the number of residents living without health insurance. It's 48th in health performance Now the Trump administration yesterday agreed to cut Medicaid benefits. The weird rationale: to see if that "helps" people sign up for Medicaid. The logic is...

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  Miami's New Little Havana Flag Is a Hideous Nightmare

  December 3 at 8:28 a.m.

  Little Havana is an amazing, interesting, beautiful place. Little Havana's new flag, which debuted yesterday, is none of those things. The flag is hideous. It's a flag that includes 22 other flags plus one rooster. If you're staring at the monstrosity above and wondering, "Why does that look like a...