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Immigration

DeSantis Stands By Attorney General’s Defiance of Federal Court Order Halting Cops’ Arrests of Migrants

May 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking at the Tampa Hula Bay Club on May 7, 2025. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing by Attorney General James Uthmeier’s open defiance of a federal court order requiring law enforcement agencies in Florida to halt immigration arrests under a new state immigration law. Talking with reporters in Tampa, the governor said the episode raises a “larger issue” of who can enact public policy in the United States.

Attorney General Flouts Federal Judge’s Order Suspending Florida Immigration Law, and May Face Sanctions

April 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier faces possible sanctions at the hands of a federal judge in Miami for allegedly encouraging enforcement of a temporarily blocked immigration law.. (Florida Phoenix)

Attorney General James Uthmeier could face contempt sanctions over a letter he sent to Florida law enforcement agencies labeling as illegitimate a court order suspending a state immigration law that led to the arrest of a U.S. citizen. In an order issued late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote that Uthmeier will have to prove that he shouldn’t face legal consequences over his greenlighting of arrests under the law, which she had temporarily blocked as likely unconstitutional.

Florida to Immigrants: Get Lost

April 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Only as long as you fit a certain profile. (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis has savaged lawmakers for not doing enough to support President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to detain and deport as many as 20 million undocumented immigrants. He has worked assiduously to engineer Florida’s reactionary version of “how many ways can we screw over immigrants?”

Federal Judge Halts Florida’s New Law Targeting Migrants, Citing Overreach

April 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Miami-based Judge Kathleen Williams issued a 14-page decision granting a request for a temporary restraining order against the law, which the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved in February. The law created state crimes for undocumented immigrants who enter or re-enter Florida.

Flagler Beach Quietly Signs On to Agreement with ICE, Deputizing Local Cops for Immigration Enforcement

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The Flagler Beach Police Department is joining a program enabling federal immigration authorities to depuitze local police in certain immigration-enforcement duties. (© FlaglerLive)

Without discussion or mention of the agreement, the Flagler Beach City Commission last Thursday signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to deputize some of its police officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

Florida Agency Wants Emergency Management to House Migrants Awaiting Deportation

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Larry Keefe, director of the State Board of Immigration Enforcement, delivers remarks during a press conference at the Florida Capitol on Feb. 19, 2025. (Jackie Llanos)

The executive director of the new State Board of Immigration Enforcement is pushing for the Florida Division of Emergency Management to house and transport immigrants awaiting deportation.

Our Silent Genocide of Transgender People

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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The United States in general and Florida in particular are enacting laws that literally erase the existence of an entire class of human beings. Trump signed an order declaring that transgender people don’t exist. Florida is about to adopt a law that would let government employees dehumanize their transgender colleagues by refusing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns. It is a new kind of genocide: bloodless, to be sure, but no less obliterating.

Florida Attorney General Threatens Removal of City Council Members Who Blocked Cooperation with ICE

March 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening three Fort Myers city council members with removal from office after they refused Monday to deputize police officers to participate in immigration enforcement. Uthmeier, who became the attorney general a month ago, warned the council that Gov. Ron DeSantis could remove them from office if they didn’t allow the city police to question people about their immigration status and detain those subject to deportation.

Florida Bill Would Ban Migrant Children Fleeing Abuse Elsewhere From Seeking Residency in Florida

March 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Human beings first and last. (Customs and Border Protection)

A bill advancing in the Florida Senate would make it harder for children without legal status who are fleeing abuse in their home countries to become permanent residents. That’s because they could lose the assistance of immigration attorneys and advocates, who say that SB 1626 would stop them from applying for immigration relief on behalf of such children.

State of the Monarch

March 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. When the Constitution was written, many people – from those who drafted the document to those who read it – believed that endowing the president with such powers was dangerous. The danger is here.

Flagler Jail Would Make 100 Beds Available to ICE as Staly Joins Florida Sheriffs Ramping Up Immigration Enforcement

February 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly is working on an agreement wiith US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (© FlaglerLive)

All of the state’s 67 counties have entered agreements with federal immigration authorities to detain undocumented immigrant criminals in jails, the Florida Sheriffs Association announced on Monday as the state rushes to assist President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly is working on an agreement with ICE to make 100 beds at the Flagler County jail available for ICE detentions of up to 72 hours per inmate, in exchange for $125 a day per inmate.

DeSantis Signs 3 More Collusion Agreements with ICE

February 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis holds up memos deputizing state agents to carry out some of the functions of federal immigration officers. He signed the agreements on Feb. 19, 2025. (Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix))

DeSantis on Wednesday signed three additional memos with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, deputizing state agents to interrogate people about their immigration status and detain them if they lack proper documentation.

Spat with DeSantis Resolved, Legislature Begins Third Special Session on Immigration Today

February 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Senate President Ben Albritton, left, Speaker Daniel Perez, left, and Gov. Ron DeSantis, center. (Photos by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican leaders of the Legislature announced Monday evening their agreement on the state’s immigration enforcement response under the Trump administration after a month-long public dispute.

Tallahassee Goes Looney Tunes Over Immigration

February 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Ron DeSantis is spittle-spouting, white boot-stamping, holding-his breath-till-he’s-blue, screaming-till-he’s-sick mad. He’s toddler mad, Elmer Fudd mad: like, vewy, vewy angwy. The Florida Legislature has defied him; dissed him; insulted him on immigration. Whatever his future, these days DeSantis is becoming shrill, declaring he’ll veto the Legislature’s bill, flying around the state (at taxpayer expense, naturally), telling Floridians to get up in their lawmakers’ faces and demand complete capitulation: “You have your marching orders.”

DeSantis Ramps Up Feud with Legislature, Pledging to Veto Bill Targeting Undocumented Immigrants

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday pledged to veto an immigration bill passed during a special legislative session Tuesday, triggering a potential showdown with Republican House and Senate leaders in a tug-of-war over efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s agenda. The governor’s latest criticism ramped up what has become a brutal — and public — feud between the Republican legislative leaders and DeSantis, who repeatedly called the bill “weak” and “pathetic” and lobbed personal attacks at his foes.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Calls Undocumented Immigrants ‘Dirtbags’

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem does not have a better way with words than with dogs. (U.S. Army Reserves)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, was in New York City, accompanying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in arrests across the city. In a video posted to social media, Noem — clad in a vest labeled POLICE/ICE — said she was in the city “to get the dirt bags off our streets.” 

Sharply Rebuking DeSantis, Lawmakers Opt for Special Session on Their Own Terms, and Override Budget Veto

January 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said Monday the House will "not be moved by threats." (Colin Hackley/NSF)

The House and Senate started and quickly ended a special legislative session that DeSantis called — and then immediately opened their own special session and released proposed immigration legislation. The moves came after DeSantis angered House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, and Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, by calling a special session that they said was premature.

DeSantis Cant Wait to Get His Hands on ‘Illegal Immigration’ Legislation

January 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

GOP Rep. Kiyan Michael, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters discussed illegal immigration during a roundtable discussion in Jacksonville on Jan. 23, 2025. (Screenshot DeSantis Facebook)

Gov. Ron DeSantis used the power of his bully pulpit on Thursday to once again lean on the Florida Legislature to come together for a special legislative session next week to further restrict illegal immigration, vowing to fight like a “junkyard dog” that just won’t stop until he sees results. The governor has said repeatedly over the past couple of weeks that the Legislature must not wait until the regular session opens in March to address the newly implemented executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on reducing the number of the undocumented in Florida.

DeSantis Calls Special Session on Immigration, Condo Safety, Hurricane Relief and Petition-Gathering

January 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for a late-January special legislative session from the Florida Capitol on Jan. 13, 2025. (Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Saying he expects a “sea change” in federal immigration policies from the incoming Trump administration, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday called the Florida Legislature into special session to deal with illegal immigration and three other issues. The session will begin on Jan. 27 and will include deliberations on condominium safety regulations, hurricane relief, and fraudulent signature-gathering petitions for constitutional amendments.

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton Wants to Phase Out ‘Dreamers’ Tuition Break

December 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, suggested phasing out a tuition break for undocumented immigrant students. (Colin Hackley/N

Senate President Ben Albritton suggested phasing out a decade-old law that allows some undocumented immigrant students, known as “dreamers,” to receive in-state tuition rates at Florida universities and colleges.

GOP’s Randy Fine Files Bill to End In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants

December 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Rep. Randy Fine speaks at an anti-abortion rally on the steps of the Historic Florida Capitol Building. May 24, 2022.

Undocumented immigrants would lose access to in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges and universities under a bill filed by Sen. Randy Fine. The Republican from Brevard County called the practice of providing in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants a “sweetheart deal.”

Trump Readies Mass Deportations with Noem Pick at Homeland Security

November 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Kisty Noem will not be friendly to migrants. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Spc. Jamaal Turner)

President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will carry out Trump’s plan to conduct mass deportations of millions of people in the country without proper legal status.

Looking Past Trump’s Lies to Understand Temporary Protected Status

October 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

What is Temporary Protected Status

Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance, have criticized the Biden administration’s decision to allow Haitian nationals who are in the U.S. to apply for permission to stay under a legal classification called Temporary Protected Status. Here is what this designation means and how it’s made.

Banning Asylum Is No Way to an Immigration Fix

June 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Under both U.S. and international law, anyone fleeing persecution in another country has a right to request asylum and have their claim assessed. But both the Trump and Biden administrations have dramatically undermined these protections. Most recently, Biden’s executive order and accompanying federal rule on “Securing the Border” — which effectively closed the U.S.-Mexico border this June — all but suspended the right to asylum altogether.

DeSantis Says Undocumented Immigrants Will ‘Regret’ Coming to Florida as He Signs Harsher Penalties Into Law

March 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis stages a press conference in Winter Haven on March 15, 2024. Source: Screenshot/DeSantis Facebook

One bill doesn’t mention migrants specifically but imposes a mandatory 10-day jail sentence for a third or subsequent conviction for driving without a license or with a license that has been suspended, cancelled, or revoked. Another bumps criminal penalties for people who commit felonies after having been deported and returning to the United States.

Legal Or Not, Only Immigrants Can Save America

March 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Mexico, across from the Rio Grande, seen from near McAllen, Texas. (© FlaglerLive)

The United States avoided a recession largely because of a surge in immigration, and its economic output is expected to be $7 trillion higher over the next 10 years largely because of immigration–legal or not: the Congressional Budget Office doesn’t distinguish between the two. As native-born fertility declines and Americans age, the country cannot afford to close its borders. Those immigrants at the border aren’t an invasion. They’re not a crisis. They’re a lifeline: theirs and ours.

Immigrant Activists Rally Against ‘Consistent Dehumanization’ in Florida as They Face More Bills Targeting Them

February 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A sign held by immigration activists at the state capitol in Tallahassee on Feb. 15. (Mitch Perry)

Seven months after one of the strictest immigration laws in the nation went into effect, dozens of immigrant rights activists gathered in the state Capitol building on Thursday to speak out about what one person called the “never ending attacks on immigrants” in Florida.

High-Profile Attorney Jose Baez Takes Over Defense of Migrant Virgilio Mendez Accused in Death of Sheriff’s Deputy After Arrest

February 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Virgilio Aguilar Mendez was standing near the sign of the Super 8 motel, where he was staying, when a sheriff's deputy found his presence there suspicious last May. (Still from body cam)

Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant facing a manslaughter charge in the heart-attack death of a St. Johns County sheriff’s deputy following Mendez’s arrest on a minor charge, is now represented by Jose Baez, the Miami attorney and one of the most successful and high-profile trial lawyers in the country. Baez’s involvement and a petition that has gathered 600,000 signatures for Mendez’s release reflect the reach of the case far beyond St. Johns County, and shock over a charge that, according to the medical examiner’s conclusion, is disconnected from deputy Michael Kunovich’s heart attack.

This Hyper Talk of a Border ‘Invasion’ Is an Old American Playbook

January 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

French Canadian boys working in a New Bedford, Mass., textile factory in 1912. (Library of Congress.)

With persecution, poverty, and climate change driving large numbers of migrants to the southern border, some in politics and the media are again pushing the panic button and purposely but inaccurately using words like “invasion” to describe problems at the border.

Defense Calls Out Sharp Inaccuracies in Arrest Account of Migrant Facing Manslaughter Charge in Death of Deputy

January 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

"After suffering various choke holds, being kneed to his ribs and tased multiple times, Virgilio's hands were cuffed," a motion describing the arrest of migrant worker Virgilio Mendez reads. (Still from body cam footage)

The defense lawyer for Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant held for over eight months on an aggravated manslaughter of an officer charge in the death of a St. Johns County deputy, is calling his arrest “legally insufficient,” describing his arrest report as a series of misrepresentations and misapplications of the law, and citing the medical examiner’s report to conclude that the death of the deputy was unrelated to the arrest.

Judge Rules Migrant Held Responsible for Death of Deputy After Arrest Is Incompetent to Stand Trial

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Mendez in court for his competency hearing on Dec. 22. (Pool)

Circuit Judge R. Lee Smith ruled that Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant held responsible for the death of a St. Johns County deputy of a cardiac episode several minutes after Mendez was arrested, is incompetent to proceed to trial and is to receive “competency restoration” while held at the Volusia County Branch Jail. The order suspends further criminal proceedings, but may be abrogated over the next 60 days should the treatment restore competency to the court’s satisfaction.

Judge Mulls Trial Competency of Migrant Facing Manslaughter Charge in Sudden Death of Deputy After Arrest

December 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Declaring it a “complex situation,” Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith at the end of a three-hour hearing today said he needed time to think before issuing a decision on whether Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant controversially charged with manslaughter in the death of a St. Johns County deputy Michael Kunovich last May, is competent to stand trial. Kunovich died several minutes after Mendez was arrested for resisting arrest after a stop-and-frisk encounter in St. Augustine.

Statewide Grand Jury Attacks Organizations That Help Migrants and Calls for Further Crackdowns

November 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A statewide grand jury is sharply critical of what it sees as inaction in federal immigration enforcement. (US Customs and Border Protection)

A statewide grand jury has issued a 146-page report that calls for taking a series of steps to try to curb illegal immigration. The report includes calling for further attempts to crack down on businesses that hire undocumented immigrants, probing non-government organizations and collecting fees on transfers of money from Florida to other countries.

Lawsuit Calls Florida’s New Immigration Law Unconstitutional and ‘Xenophobic’

July 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A coalition of groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court over Florida’s recently enacted immigration law, specifically challenging the section of the law that makes it a felony for individuals to transport an undocumented immigrant across state lines as being unconstitutional.

A Memorial Month for Our Rights

May 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Tuesday begins a month of memorial days as we watch our Supreme Court continue to roll back those very rights soldiers died for, trampling them more effectively than any enemy foreign or, for the most part, domestic, ever has.

DeSantis Signs Most Restrictive Bill Against Undocumented Migrants in the Country

May 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what both he and his critics agree is the strongest anti-illegal immigration bill passed by any state legislature in the country on Wednesday. Speaking in Jacksonville behind a podium with a sign reading, “Biden’s Border Crisis,” the governor blasted the president for the large influx of undocumented immigrants that has occurred across the U.S.-Mexican border over the past couple of years.

End Language that Dehumanizes Immigrants

May 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Sensationalizing, stigmatizing, and misleading imagery and rhetoric surrounding immigration leads to near-constant use of the term “illegal” or “unlawful” to describe unauthorized crossings. An advocate for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and trafficking is alarmed by the use of this language to describe a migrant’s attempt to survive.

Republican Lawmakers Prepared to Spend $10 Million on Migrant Expulsions from Florida

February 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Migrants in texas, pawns in Florida. (US Customs and Border Protection)

The Florida Senate on Wednesday likely will take up a plan that would bolster Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to send migrants to “sanctuary” cities and states, as Republicans and Democrats battle over the issue.

In 1st Visit to Mexico Border, Joe Biden Tours a City Overrun By Record Surge of Migrants

January 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

In El Paso. (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol)

The visit to the border for the president is politically fraught — as Republicans have accused Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of neglecting border security and immigration issues as the number of migrant arrests this past year reached never before seen heights.

Qatar Is ‘Sportswashing.’ Fans Don’t Really Care.

November 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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“Sportswashing” is using sport as a tool of soft power, to clean up (and distract from) a murky political or humanitarian reputation. The World Cup is a massive deal. The last one, hosted by another controversial host nation, Russia, attracted 3.5 billion viewers across the world.

Florida Center for Government Accountability Sues DeSantis Over Migrant Flight Records

October 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Ron DeSantis appearing in Tampa today. (Facebook)

The Florida Center for Government Accountability filed the lawsuit in Leon County circuit court and alleged that the governor’s office did not comply with requests to release a series of records about the migrant flights.

Lawsuit Cites DeSantis Trickery in Seeking to Block Further Migrant Flights

September 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

For migrants, it's been a dog's life. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection,)

Lawyers representing asylum seekers who were allegedly “tricked” into going from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on flights funded by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said Wednesday they are seeking a nationwide injunction to block the governor from luring immigrants to travel across state lines.

DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard Trafficking May Be Illegal

September 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

An immigrant mother and child stand outside a church on Martha’s Vineyard

Transporting consenting migrants who have the paperwork to be in the U.S. is legal. But certain factors – like DeSantis’ intent and knowledge of the migrants’ immigration status – could create potential civil and criminal liability.

DeSantis Pulls From Segregationists’ Playbook with Anti-Immigration Stunt

September 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

An undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. (Dominic Chavez for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Governors Greg Abbott in Texas and Ron DeSantis in Florida are following the playbook of segregationists who provided one-way bus tickets to Northern cities for Black Southerners in the 1960s. At that time, the fight for racial equality was attracting national attention and support from many white Americans, inspiring some to join interracial Freedom Rides organized by civil rights groups.

DeSantis Pledges More Migrant Flights Out of Florida at State’s Expense

September 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 75 Comments

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The flights Wednesday mostly involved Venezuelan migrants and included about 10 children. Two planes went from San Antonio, Texas, to the Florida Panhandle community of Crestview before going north.

Our Thirty Years’ War: Schlesinger’s The Disuniting of America

December 26, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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What historian Arthur Schlesinger had detected in 1992 in a few trends is now orthodoxy–from both sides, neither for the better. The “ethnic rage” of diversity-preaching liberals and the fundamentalist, doctrinaire “monoculturalism” of conservatives has the country in a state of paralysis. Schlesinger wanted a renewed melting pot. But that’s not the solution.

DeSantis Ramps Up Inaccurate Anti-Asylum Rhetoric In Legally-Dubious Assault on Federal Policy

December 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

"We stand in solidarity with the people from Central Florida demanding an end to Haitian deportations & Title 42," says the Florida Immigrant Coalition on its Facebook page.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to give him $8 million to ship asylum seekers transported by the Biden administration into Florida off to other states in an expanding initiative against what the governor inaccurately calls President Joe Biden’s “open borders policy.” Republicans’ overall complaint vastly distorts Biden’s policy, according to an analysis published by the libertarian Cato Institute.

On Refugees, Joe Biden Should Emulate Canada: Go Big

October 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The capacity of private American citizens to resettle refugees is large and untapped. It may even bridge the divide over immigration in the United States. Now is the time for Biden to ask the American people to invite homeless and war-ravaged Afghan refugees into their homes and their communities.

This Is What Happens to Child Migrants at the Border

August 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Behind huge numbers of migrants are individual children, many of whom have suffered from repeated trauma. Legally, the U.S. is obligated to care for these children from the moment they arrive until they turn 18, according to carefully defined procedures.

When Americans Recall their Roots, they Open Up to Immigration

August 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

At the Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island in New York, where immigrants and visitors form a mosaic of pluralism. (© FlaglerLive)

Reminding Americans of where they came from – such as the statements by Biden administration officials – creates empathy for immigrants, generating more favorable attitudes toward immigration.

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