Wire ServicesJune 18, 2020
10min432
Roughly 32,000 Dreamers call Florida home.
Tag: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Wire ServicesJune 18, 2020
Ryan NicolMarch 15, 2019
6min908
The bill, proposed in the House, faces huge hurdles in the Senate.
Ryan NicolFebruary 5, 2019
9min323
President Donald Trump is set to give the address Tuesday night.
Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2018
4min300
An immigration advocacy group on Tuesday launched a series of digital ads targeting Republican U.S. Reps. Brian Mast and Carlos Curbelo, as well as their GOP colleagues, for their role in failing to protect “Dreamers.” iAmerica Action announced it will spend $250,000 in 27 House districts on the ads, many of which have large Latino populations. Mast represents […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 26, 2018
7min315
The perception that Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were close was shattered during the 2015-16 race for President. The two Miami-area GOP heavyweights clashed in debates and on the campaign trail as they vastly underperformed to expectations in losing the Republican nomination to Donald Trump. The former Florida Governor took a verbal shot at the […]
Scott PowersJanuary 19, 2018
3min214
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine has launched another television commercial – his fourth overall and second this week – with a Spanish-language ad decrying the administration of President Donald Trump‘s policies toward so-called DREAMers, the young, undocumented immigrants who essentially grew up in the United States. The 30-second spot “Injusticia” shows images of DREAMers and […]
Staff ReportsOctober 29, 2017
4min190
State Rep. David Richardson will join immigrant youth and their parents this evening (Sunday) at a special dinner. The Miami Beach Democrat will discuss how the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will affect them and their families. He says he will commit to pushing policies locally and nationally that protect […]
Lloyd DunkelbergerSeptember 8, 2017
5min278
A prominent Republican fund-raiser turned critic of President Donald Trump said Thursday it would be a huge economic mistake not to let young undocumented immigrants, called “Dreamers,” remain in the United States. “There is something wrong in separating families,” Miguel “Mike” Fernandez said, after delivering a speech to students and faculty at Florida A&M University. […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 5, 2017
3min172
Rick Scott let it be known late last Friday he is not supporting his friend Donald Trump‘s decision to rescind the immigration order of former President Barack Obama that shields some children of undocumented immigrants from deportation. But now that it’s happened, the Florida governor says it’s time for Congress to act. “These were individuals who came here; they were […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 4, 2017
7min243
President Donald Trump plans to announce Tuesday that he will end an Obama-era program protecting young immigrants brought into the country as children, which quickly drew the ire of Florida Democrats. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, allows nearly 800,000 young immigrants, known colloquially as “Dreamers,” a reprieve from deportation as well […]