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Scott PowersJune 20, 2018

Four and potentially all five of Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates could wind up marching arm-in-arm – at least metaphorically – in Homestead this weekend at a rally protesting President Donald Trump‘s policy to separate immigrant children from their families. In quick order Wednesday morning, in a line of falling campaign dominoes, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum […]

Scott PowersJune 19, 2018

“This practice needs to stop now,” declared Gov. Rick Scott in strong opposition to President Donald Trump‘s immigration policy leading to the separation of children from families, In a letter Tuesday to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Scott claimed no direct knowledge of what is going on at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, […]

Scott PowersJune 18, 2018

A new Quinnipiac University poll finds Republican voters strongly back the immigrant children separation issue, while every other political persuasion and demographic group in the survey oppose it. The poll, released Monday afternoon, states that Republican voters, by 55-35 percent, support the policy of President Donald Trump of prosecuting parents immediately even if it means […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 26, 2018

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 […]

Danny McAuliffeDecember 15, 2017

The Naples Daily News brought the heat on this one. Journalist Maria Perez debuted a yearlong harrowing investigation this week that uncovered the commonplace practice of Florida staff leasing companies for high-risk jobs hiring undocumented immigrant workers and axing them without compensation when they became injured. The piece tells the story of Abednego de la […]

Ana CeballosNovember 28, 2017

A review panel is flirting with the idea of implementing a vexed employment verification system into the state constitution to weed out undocumented immigrants before they enter the workforce. The proposal (P29) cleared the Constitution Revision Commission’s General Provisions Committee on Tuesday, following a long stretch of public comment with clashing viewpoints on the federal […]

Scott PowersNovember 27, 2017

The city of Orlando is considering a resolution that would have the City Council and Mayor Buddy Dyer formally declare their policy that police and other city officials not get involved in immigration matters, including a policy against questioning people whether their status is legal or not. The resolution would state what already is the […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 5, 2017

My Republican friends (yes, I have them) loathe being called the party of mean people, and I completely understand why they feel that way. What some see as mean, others see as principled. That’s particularly true with programs like Medicaid expansion in Florida, which many Republicans say costs too much and doesn’t work well enough. […]

Scott PowersMarch 15, 2017

The Consul of the Mexican Consulate in Orlando and several groups blasted a Florida senate bill Wednesday that would make one set of criminal codes for undocumented immigrants and another for everyone else. Mexico Consul Juan Sabines Guerrero called Senate Bill 120 “condemnable by society as a whole” as he and representatives of the ACLU and […]

Associated PressMarch 8, 2017

A South Florida school board is taking steps to protect the children of undocumented immigrants who face deportation. The School Board of Broward County approved the resolution on Tuesday in response to increasing fears of more aggressive immigration enforcement policies implemented by the Trump administration. School Board member Robin Bartleman says immigrant families “wanted to […]

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Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates planning to march together in Homestead

‘This practice needs to stop now,’ Rick Scott says of taking away children

Q Poll: Republicans support separating immigrant children; no other group does

Jeb Bush: Marco Rubio needs to lead on immigration

Florida newspaper spotlights exploitation of undocumented workforce

Mandating E-Verify in state constitution eyed by commissioners

Orlando contemplating immigrant ‘trust’ resolution

GOP faces showdown: Is it ‘mean’ or ‘compassionate’

Mexico Consul, ACLU, Civil Rights groups blast immigrant crime bill

School board votes to protect kids from immigration raids