IMMIGRATION

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s migrant relocation program was under investigation in Texas and California, but he didn’t say anything about it during a public event on Tuesday.

Authorities took 13 Cuban migrants into custody after the group landed near Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys Monday evening, according to a U.S. Border Patrol official.

Amid the outcry, a pair of videos circulating widely on social media are claiming to show empty supermarkets in the Sunshine State, purportedly due to truck drivers boycotting deliveries to the state in protest of the immigration overhaul. But the footage is unrelated.

Videos circulating on social media show several construction sites in Florida, reportedly abandoned by immigrant workers following the state’s new immigration law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis last week.

Authorities responded to a suspected migrant landing on Sunny Isles Beach Monday.

An advocate for Florida’s farmworkers said there’s anxiety in the community over a new immigration bill signed into law this week by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Immigrant advocacy groups held a news conference at downtown Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower Thursday morning, denouncing a controversial immigration bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis the day prior.

Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to sign a new law to strengthen his program to relocate immigrants in a move that the advocates of undocumented migrants have criticized.

The Florida Legislature on Tuesday approved a sweeping immigration bill pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, bolstering the Republican's controversial migrant-relocation program as he prepares to announce a presidential run.

13 migrants were intercepted on a sailboat near Key Biscayne Saturday in what the head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector calls a “maritime smuggling event.”

Four migrants from Iraq arrived at Miami Beach by boat on Friday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Local 10 had exclusive access to the motorized glider piloted by two Cuban migrants on Saturday that landed at Key West International Airport.

Police in South Texas say that two migrants have been found dead and at least 10 have been hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a freight train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Five Cuban migrants made landfall in the Florida Keys Tuesday morning, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

Over a dozen Cuban migrants were taken into custody overnight Saturday after arriving on a homemade boat, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

U.S. Coast Guard crews rescued a small group of migrants Sunday as they traveled in a makeshift sailing raft in the Straits of Florida Sunday afternoon.

A pile of motors, rows of now-empty fuel drums, and lines of homemade migrant boats plucked from the water were stored at John Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo.

A Cuban pilot who made a daring escape from the island on a Soviet-era biplane was granted asylum, he and his attorneys announced Friday.

Twenty-two Cuban migrants landed in Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Jacksonville on Thursday morning to speak about what he calls an ongoing crisis when it comes to migrants coming into the United States illegally.

Eighteen Cuban migrants landed in Key West Friday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

More than 100 Haitian migrants arrived to Tavernier on a boat Thursday morning, authorities confirmed.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday in Miami-Dade County that the new program for refugees and asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is already working.

Officials say the U.S. Coast Guard has detained a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas in one of the biggest human smuggling incidents in the region.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is set to join local officials Thursday in Marathon to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis in the Florida Keys.

Monroe County commissioners asked for more federal resources to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis in the Florida Keys, passing a resolution as they met Wednesday morning in Marathon.

Changes in migration patterns have impacted Miami-Dade County Public Schools before and it may be happening again.

Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of The Seas rescued a group of 17 migrants from Cuba who were stranded at sea on Jan. 14 and arrived at Port Everglades on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

As President Joe Biden announced the recent expansion of an immigration policy for migrants coming from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, sponsors in South Florida are stepping up to help people who might not even know about the program.

Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked President Joe Biden’s immigration policy Thursday amid a surge in migrants arriving in South Florida.

After President Joe Biden announced nearly one week ago that he is expanding a program to accept up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, many South Floridians are already benefitting.

As migrants, primarily from Cuba and Haiti, continue to arrive in the Florida Keys, more state law enforcement officials are now joining the efforts to tackle the unprecedented crisis.

Homemade boats became part of the landscape in the mangroves and on the beaches of the Florida Keys, as the onslaught of migrant landings continued overnight into Friday.

Immigration may be a federal issue, but local taxpayers in the Florida Keys are footing some of the bills amid the onslaught of migrants arriving in the island chain.

Amid an onslaught of migrant landings to start 2023, the Cuban exodus has reached crisis proportions, experts and officials say, and it’s showing no signs of abating.

Crews from two cruise ships rescued groups of migrants stranded off the South Florida coast Monday, as record numbers of Cubans head to the Florida shores in what officials are calling an “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis.

At least 500 migrants have landed in the Florida Keys over the last several days in what the local sheriff’s office described on Monday as a “crisis.”

Federal agents detained 15 Cuban migrants after their vessel landed in the Florida Keys early Saturday morning, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

A top official with the U.S. Border Patrol says agents have taken 175 migrants into custody following multiple landings in South Florida over a one-day span.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 2 Cuban migrants about 40 miles off Boot Key after a vessel capsized on Tuesday.

Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard searched for nine suspected Cuban migrants in the waters off Palm Beach County, the agency said Monday morning.

The mayor of a Texas border city has declared a state of emergency over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar will start her second term in about a month and she will count on a Republican majority in the House to help her change the country’s immigration policy.

Officials recovered the body of a male in the water off Islamorada Thursday, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Federal authorities responded to several migrant landings in the middle and lower Florida Keys on Thanksgiving Day, sources tell Local 10 News.

Federal agents responded after 19 Cuban migrants landed in the Florida Keys Wednesday morning, an official with the U.S. Border Patrol said.

Authorities rescued 22 people from an “overloaded” boat in rough seas off the Florida Keys Monday morning, according to a tweet from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Organizations in Miami-Dade County teamed up to help some of the more than 100,000 Venezuelan migrants who have about four days to reapply for Temporary Protected Status.

A group of more than 20 Cuban migrants landed in the Florida Keys Thursday morning.

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

Officials took nearly a dozen Cuban migrants into custody in the Florida Keys Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The Cuban pilot who defected in a Soviet-era biplane was supposed to be working on agricultural spraying work when he fled Friday to the United States, according to a Cuban government agency.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Miami Sector are investigating a single-engine biplane landing on Friday in Ochoppee.

Federal agents responded to a migrant landing near Marathon on Thursday morning, a top official with the U.S. Border Patrol said.

The unprecedented surge of migrant landings in South Florida continued Tuesday, as federal officials reported more than a dozen landings in the Florida Keys in a 24-hour period.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nine Cuban migrants and a dog stranded in the Bahamas Friday, according to a tweet from the agency.

Local and federal authorities responded to a migrant landing on Key Biscayne Friday morning.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury will investigate whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis misused pandemic relief funds to fly a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September, a U.S. Senator said.

Two Cuban migrants were apprehended by agents with the U.S. Border Patrol after arriving in the Florida Keys on windsurfing boards, a federal official said Wednesday morning.

The deaths of seven Cuban migrants, whose bodies have been found in or around the Florida Keys over the past week, are linked to Hurricane Ian, Local 10 News confirmed with the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s office Wednesday evening.

The Massachusetts' governor's office says the last of dozens of migrants shipped to Martha’s Vineyard last month are set to depart temporary shelter at a military base on Cape Cod for transitional housing by the end of the weekend.

As the number of immigrants seeking court permission to avoid deportation grows, foundations in Los Angeles have joined with local governments to direct millions of dollars to pay for lawyers to represent the immigrants, an effort they hope will be copied across the country.

Nearly two dozen Cuban migrants were missing in the waters off the Florida Keys Wednesday morning after their vessel sank in the Straits of Florida, a U.S. Border Patrol official says.

A group of Florida Democratic Party leaders and Venezuelan-American activists met on Thursday at El Arepazo restaurant in Doral to condemn the flights of immigrants out of Texas.

Federal agents detained 14 Cuban migrants after their boat landed in the Florida Keys Wednesday morning, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard continues to attract criticism from political opponents, as well as a criminal investigation and lawsuit, but the governor has remained steadfast defending the move.

A Venezuelan migrant family is sharing their journey to South Florida in an exclusive interview with Local 10 News.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending his decision to send a group of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard amid a criminal investigation and, now, a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the migrants filed Tuesday.

A Texas sheriff has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly a group of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, his agency tweeted Monday evening.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed fingers at President Joe Biden Friday amid questions over his decision to fly a group of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, as others criticize the move.

A federal grand jury indicted three men Thursday, after prosecutors accused them of smuggling Cuban migrants to a Hialeah “stash house,” where they were held for a $15,000 ransom.

Leaders in South Florida’s Venezuelan-American community gathered in Doral Thursday to denounce Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send two planes filled with undocumented immigrants to Massachusetts.

The Governor of Florida has sent a group of illegal immigrants out of his state and to one he calls a sanctuary destination.

American Friends Service Committee of Florida, The Florida Immigrant Coalition, and The Miramar Circle of Florida joined together for a press conference Wednesday to seek immediate action on TPS re-designation for Central American countries.

American Friends Service Committee of Florida, The Florida Immigrant Coalition, and The Miramar Circle of Florida joined together for a press conference Wednesday to seek immediate action on TPS re-designation for Central American countries.

Amid an ongoing surge in Cuban migration, both on the shores of South Florida and at the U.S.-Mexico border, a South Florida immigration attorney says inconsistent immigration laws could be helping to fuel the uptick, as people flee the economically-distressed island.

Federal and local law enforcement officials responded to a suspected Cuban migrant boat landing on Haulover Beach Monday morning.

Officials intercepted a suspected migrant vessel headed toward Hollywood Beach Thursday afternoon.

Cubans are fleeing their country in the largest numbers in more than four decades. The migrants choose to stake their lives and futures on a dangerous journey to the United States by air, land and sea to escape the island’s political and economic woes.

Federal agents responded to “multiple” migrant landings in Key West Monday morning, a top official with the U.S. Border Patrol said.

U.S. Coast Guard crews returned 90 Cuban migrants to the island after intercepting vessels in the Straits of Florida in five separate incidents Wednesday and Thursday.

Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered and Coast Guard Cutter Diligence intercepted the sailboat about 29 miles south of Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas.

A Cuban migrant vessel washed ashore on Hollywood Beach Thursday morning, causing a stir and revealing a series of coincidences about where it landed and who witnessed it.

Attorney David Claros says "the term ‘illegality’ is something that gets thrown around, but it’s of very little legal significance because most of these individuals do have a right to be here."

Bahamian authorities said Tuesday that they have detained 111 Haitian migrants found on an overloaded sloop in waters around the archipelago.

Federal agents took more than two dozen Cuban migrants into custody following two separate landings in the Florida Keys Saturday morning, a U.S. Border Patrol official said.

Crews returned more than 200 Cuban migrants to the island after intercepting more than a dozen vessels at sea over the past week, officials with the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.

Federal agents discovered six Cuban migrants locked in a cargo van by smugglers following a traffic stop Thursday, according to a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

More than 100 Cuban migrants intercepted off the Florida Keys in nine separate instances over the weekend were sent back to the island, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

One of Florida's most famous places became the center of the recent migrant crisis this weekend.

Authorities arrested 78 Cuban migrants after five separate landings in the Florida Keys over a 24-hour period, a federal official said Saturday morning.

A wooden sailfreighter ran aground with more than 100 migrants on Monday near the Florida Keys. The U.S. Border Patrol announced on Friday that one of the 109 detained was a registered sex offender.

Officials took 19 Cuban migrants into custody Thursday morning after their homemade boat came ashore in Marathon, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Every time desperate Haitian migrants in crowded wooden boats arrive in South Florida, Leonie M. Hermantin said she thinks about what they are trying to get away from.

Photos and video sent in to Local 10 News show a packed sailboat surrounded by boats from multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs & Border Protection Air and Marine Operations division.

The U.S. Coast Guard sent 53 migrants back to Cuba Saturday amid an ongoing surge in migration from the island and one day after at least two migrants died after a rustic boat capsized off the Florida Keys.

Crews from multiple rescue agencies responded to “multiple reports of people in the water” off the Lower Florida Keys, according to a tweet from the U.S. Coast Guard.

On Thursday, South Floridians brought donations to Iglesia Rescate, an evangelical church in Hialeah that is helping migrants who’ve reached Florida, some of them saying they were once migrants themselves and that’s why they they felt moved to help.

Thirty-one migrants arrived in three separate landings in the Florida Keys Thursday morning, sources tell Local 10 News.

Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector, tweeted an image of a waterlogged makeshift rowboat that he said carried 23 men and two women from the island’s Artemisa region.