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Protestors gathered outside the Miramar Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Wednesday weeks of alarming reports about conditions inside the facility.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling clearing the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 250,000 Haitians in the country is not only sparking outcry about the human impact, but the potential impact on the South Florida workforce.
Miami city leaders discussed the 287-G program Thursday, which gives local police the authority to enforce immigration law. No decision was made. But for some South Florida families, the impact of that authority is already being felt.
Dozens of advocates, students and community members urged Miami commissioners Thursday to terminate the city’s agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the partnership has created fear among immigrant residents.
President Donald Trump released a public poll question on Saturday on social media.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security say all detainees have been moved from the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Everglades.
The surge in Florida immigration arrests during Trump’s second term has largely flown under the public’s radar, as many start as run-of-the-mill police traffic stops, the public seems more supportive of the initiative, and participating state and local agencies are roundly rejecting requests for arrest records and body camera video at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations are among the agencies focused on security at the FIFA World Cup 2026 events in the U.S.
The $70 billion legislation to reopen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is heading for a vote in the House after the Senate passed it on Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott shared an aerial video and photos on Thursday that he described as a team’s rescue at sea.
Investigating one fraud case in North Miami Beach resulted in the arrest of a couple in Biscayne Gardens, who local police accused of financial crimes and federal agents of immigration law violations, records showed.
A former detainee of the Florida immigrant detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz is being singled out by President Donald Trump.
After six months of uncertainty, tears and relentless advocacy from his family, Justo Bentacourt is finally home.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was at the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday in Titusville when he answered questions about Alligator Alcatraz.
Civil rights groups are sounding the alarm about what they fear could be an immigration crackdown when international visitors come to watch the FIFA World Cup in South Florida in June.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Archbishop Thomas Wenski about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement decision to cancel a contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami to help migrant children at the Bryan O. Walsh Children’s Village in Palmetto Bay.
Immigration advocates said the actions of Rolbert Joachin in Florida shouldn’t affect every Haitian in need of protected status in the United States.
One day after a federal court heard arguments over whether to shut down the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Everglades due to environmental concerns, questions are also growing about the cost to taxpayers.
Two mothers eager for a family reunion sat with their toddlers on Thursday in Miami to talk about their nightmare in hopes of finding a solution.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the partner of former North Miami Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime this week, weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a case to revoke the citizenship of Bien-Aime.
“No American Aushwitz,” and “Free Them” were some of the signs that about a dozen protesters held on Monday outside Alligator Alcatraz, a Florida-run immigration detention center on Miami-Dade County-owned land that records show faces uncertainty on funding.
Two private schools in Broward County were temporarily placed on lockdown Wednesday morning due to what the Broward Sheriff’s Office described as a “federal immigration matter” in the area.
There is a stalemate in the U.S. Congress heading into the second week over billions for border security.
Cameras were rolling when federal agents took a man into custody on Thursday afternoon in west Broward County.
More than 4,000 Miami-Dade County Public Schools students were born in Haiti or have ties to the country, according to district data obtained by Local 10 News on Friday, as families grapple with renewed uncertainty over immigration policy and the future of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.
Farrah Larrieux, who was born in Haiti, has been living in the U.S. for two decades with Temporary Protected Status that remained in limbo even after a federal judge sided with about 350,000 others like her.
Tens of thousands of South Floridians from Haiti with Temporary Protected Status are on the cusp of losing their deportation protections and work permits. Many of these individuals are employed in Miami-Dade’s healthcare sector, including local nursing homes.
Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals is set to end Tuesday, and across South Florida, concern is growing for those who could soon lose government approval to live and work in the United States.
Parishioners from Gesu Catholic Church joined college students and members of a local activist group in downtown Miami to document encounters between ICE agents and migrants.
Supporters, including some Temporary Protected Status holders, marched with an urgent message through Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Wednesday, calling for TPS to be extended for Haitian nationals.
A 30-year-old woman, born in Haiti, has been living in South Florida since she was 4 years old. She said she is among the Haitian Americans preparing for the U.S. Temporary Protected Status to end on Feb. 3.
Known to his listeners as El Oski, the Cuban-born podcaster once proudly called himself a fan of President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration says it has made historic progress in its immigration crackdown, reporting more than 600,000 deportations since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Outside the walls of the Broward Transitional facility, nearly two dozen people gathered on Christmas Day with one clear mission.
Newly-released body camera video from a Florida Keys deputy shows federal agents after stopping a driver in Key Largo earlier this month.
Miami Roman Catholic Archbishop Thomas Wenski made an appeal to President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday: halt immigration enforcement activities over the Christmas holidays.
A South Florida family says their father was detained by immigration authorities during what began as a traffic stop early Tuesday morning — and they have not been able to contact him since.
A federal judge ordered Friday that U.S. immigration officials could not detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia, hours after his release from immigration detention.
South Florida residents are reporting an increase in immigration enforcement activity across Davie in recent days, sharing cellphone videos with Local 10 News that show Florida Highway Patrol troopers, masked officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents conducting operations near major roadways and nurseries.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Carol Rosenberg, a New York Times reporter who covers the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The Trump administration announced Friday it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C.
FBI Miami special agents are investigating a human trafficking operation that federal prosecutors announced on Friday, so far, has three suspects awaiting trial and three convicts in prison.
Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in the U.S. expires on Friday.
A South Florida business is turning childbirth into a passport to the American dream.
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino mentioned both the neutrality of the Panama Canal and the immigration crisis at the Darién Gap during his speech on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
A 29-year-old man appeared in court on Tuesday in Broward County to face charges after his escape from Florida Highway Patrol troopers’ immigration law enforcement prompted a multi-agency pursuit, records show.
The increase in migrants’ deportations has resulted in more pets needing new homes in South Florida, and animal advocates are asking for help.
A U.S. strike against an alleged drug-carrying boat leaving Venezuela is drawing mixed reactions across the hemisphere, raising questions about sovereignty, security and the Trump administration’s broader policy toward the region.
Federal agents raided the construction site of Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia and arrested 475 migrants on Thursday, according to Homeland Security.
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans will soon lose their deportation protections and face returning to a country many say isn’t safe.
While the operation of the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades appears to be over, a judge will soon decide whether the detainees who were kept there were unlawfully kept from their attorneys.
A federal immigration judge denied the request of a father who has three U.S.-born children with special needs waiting for him in Coral Springs, an immigration attorney said on Thursday.
At the prospect of Alligator Alcatraz closing, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, “Good riddance!”
Months after Miguel “Mike” Fernandez celebrated his 12th birthday, armed members of Fidel Castro’s militia frightened him and his 10-year-old sister when they interrupted Christmas Eve dinner at their home in Manzanillo, then known as the Pearl of the Guacanayabo.
After a hearing in federal court on Monday in Downtown Miami, civil rights attorneys said there was more clarity about the migrant detainees’ legal recourse while held in Alligator Alcatraz, in the Florida Everglades.
Florida will soon have a second detention center for people held as undocumented.
A federal judge in Miami will continue to hear arguments Monday over whether detainees at Florida’s temporary immigrant detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz have been denied their legal rights.
Curitiba is not as big as São Paulo and not as known as Rio de Janeiro, but it is the fastest-growing city in Brazil.
The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that a 44-year-old U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee from Haiti died of natural causes.
A violent Florida Highway Patrol and Border Patrol arrest was captured on camera during a traffic stop in South Florida.
Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Friday morning at the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility in Collier County and said deportation flights from the remote Everglades lockup began in the past few days.
A detainee held at the migrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” is sharing details of his experience.
A U.S. detainee -- whose only crime was to reenter the U.S. after a deportation -- has been away from his wife and kids in Coral Springs for five months.
Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday in Collier County.
South Florida lawmakers are demanding answers about what’s happening inside a controversial migrant detention site some have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” as concerns mount over the treatment of hundreds being held at the remote Everglades Detention Center.
South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández said he was disappointed that Key West officials had decided to allow an immigration law enforcement partnership.
Tensions flared and emotions ran high at a packed Key West City Hall Tuesday as city commissioners revisited their stance on cooperating with federal immigration enforcement under the controversial 287(g) agreement.
President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Monday that the temporary protected status for Nicaraguans was ending in 60 days.
A coalition of immigration rights organizations and elected officials rallied outside the Broward Transitional Center on Saturday, calling for expanded protections for immigrants and an end to deportation policies that they say dehumanize working families.
President Donald Trump’s administration deployed 200 U.S. Marines to Florida to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
As the first wave of migrant detainees prepares to arrive, Florida officials are finalizing construction on what critics are now calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Supporters and protesters gathered Tuesday outside Florida’s newest migrant detention center — a controversial facility environmentalists have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as President Donald Trump visited the site to highlight his deportation plans.
A Cuban citizen has died in custody, according to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement.
Current and former elected leaders representing the Haitian-American community in Miami-Dade and Broward, along with faith leaders, activists, and lawyers, appealed to all Americans on Monday to rally for their neighbors and colleagues with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, a project critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
The termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians was announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
A South Florida immigration attorney is weighing in after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a significant legal victory to the Trump administration on Friday, ruling that federal judges cannot issue universal injunctions that apply nationwide.
White House officials pushed back Thursday against reports that ICE agents are targeting undocumented children in Florida’s foster care system, calling the claims a smear campaign against the president and immigration officers.
During a Miami-Dade commission meeting on Thursday, a heated discussion arose over immigration enforcement agreements and confusion over what was being discussed.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Florida, made another South Florida stop Monday amid the immigration crackdown –- this time to tour Miami-Dade’s Krome Detention Center.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is proposing a controversial plan to detain undocumented immigrants at a remote facility he’s calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Family Action Network Movement, a social services nonprofit organization, kicked off the two-day Immigration Summit in Miami’s Little Haiti.
A federal agent was recovering from injuries suffered during the arrest of an undocumented convicted sex offender, according to Homeland Security.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez defended the conditions inside the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami on Tuesday, saying he saw no signs of mistreatment or neglect after touring the facility, which houses migrant detainees under a federal agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An Apopka woman spoke out on Friday after her father, a local business owner who illegally entered the U.S. decades ago, was deported back to Guatemala.
José Trinidad Torres Casas is among the many fathers who have arrived at Miami International Airport with plans of no return to his war-ravaged Colombia.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and President Donald Trump’s U.S. military deployment to Los Angeles riots prompted protests on Saturday in South Florida and around the nation.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida's Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Rep. Kevin Chambliss, a Democrat who represents District 117; Florida Rep. Alex Rizo, a Republican who represents District 112; South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández; and U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida’s Glenna Milberg interviews South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández.
