Protestors push back against Alligator Alcatraz, Trump's immigration policies
This week, ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
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This week, ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
The family members were standing under an umbrella during a thunderstorm, a bystander said.
A federal judge may pause operations at Alligator Alcatraz as protests grow and nonprofits sue over conditions and impact.
A controversial migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is drawing fierce political and legal scrutiny, with critics calling for its shutdown over environmental and human rights concerns, while supporters defend its operations ahead of a possible federal court ruling next week.
A new Trump-backed budget law allows tipped workers to deduct up to $25,000 in tips and $12,500 in overtime, offering temporary tax relief through 2028.
Tipped and hourly workers in South Florida say they’re celebrating a new federal law that lets them deduct up to $25,000 in tips and $12,500 in overtime from their taxes — savings that could mean just under $1,700 a year.
A new legislation cutting billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding could leave one million Floridians without coverage, advocates warn.
Some GOP donors whose companies helped build and will assist in running the facility are being given seven-figure sums.
Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast.
On Wednesday night, workers replaced the signs in front of the training facility with ones that read "Alligator Alcatraz."
The U.S. military said it will send some service members to Florida, in the "first wave" of an operation to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sheriff's deputies said what started as a simple traffic stop took a dangerous turn.
U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed a nine-page document opposing a request by environmental groups for a temporary restraining order to halt operation of the facility.
"Alligator Alcatraz will be checking in hundreds of criminal illegal aliens tonight," Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said.
The law, passed during a February special legislative session and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, created state crimes for undocumented immigrants who enter or re-enter Florida.
Florida elected officials are required to file financial-disclosure forms by July 1 each year that list income, assets and liabilities.
The pronoun restrictions were part of a series of controversial measures that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers have approved in recent years that focus on transgender people — and have drawn legal challenges.
Surfer Darren Kaye said he noticed the spinner shark before the collision, but thought nothing of it until the animal came flying at him.
Under House Bill 351, first-time offenders can face a $500 fine, up to 30 days in jail or both.
Florida law enforcement agencies' cooperation with federal immigration officials is causing concerns among family members and immigrants' rights advocates that people will disappear into county jail systems.
President Trump toured a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz."
A beachgoer stumbled across nearly $500,000 worth of cocaine wrapped in "Yosemite Sam" packaging in Florida, authorities said.
Here is a closer look at 10 laws that took effect Tuesday, the start the state's 2025-2026 fiscal year.
A brief history of the land where Florida officials and the federal government are building "Alligator Alcatraz."
Dr. Daniel Aghion has donated an organ to save a life and treated the wounded after the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel.
