Liv Caputo | Florida Phoenix
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On a Zoom meeting, the coalition of legal entities and advocacy organizations called on the DeSantis administration to reconsider this week鈥檚 education change, which outright outlawed state colleges from enrolling undocumented students.
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The Miccosukee Tribe wants to be the new protector of the so-called 鈥滱lligator Alcatraz鈥 site, calling Friday on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to give it the territory to conserve. But DeSantis administration still controls immigration detention center site.
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Florida still owes at least $603 million to 27 companies that helped build the state鈥檚 migrant lockups and carry out an undocumented immigration crackdown, according to dozens of contracts reviewed by the Phoenix.
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Mobs of teens rioting to 鈥渢akeover鈥 Florida cities can legally be run over and also charged with racketeering, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Thursday.
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Acting as the newly created State Board of Immigration Enforcement, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved more than $87 million in immigration reimbursements for 56 local law enforcement agencies, most of it for radios and AI policing systems.
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Former state Senator Shevrin Jones is running to succeed eight-term U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson in Congressional District 24, according to paperwork filed Thursday morning.
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Trump鈥檚 praise for the Florida governor 鈥 previously rare for his former presidential opponent 鈥 comes one week after state lawmakers agreed to spend $2.75 million to rebrand the Palm Beach International Airport.
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The Trump administration has paid Florida $58 million for operating 鈥淎lligator Alcatraz,鈥 the first of promised federal reimbursements set to flow into the state.
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It鈥檚 the first installment of the $608 million FEMA grant Florida鈥檚 been waiting for since the detention center opened last summer.
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DeSantis said he鈥檚 glad Florida can take a back seat in the Trump administration鈥檚 war to quash undocumented immigration during a Brevard County press conference.
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Days after Tampa prosecutors revealed that a suspected murderer consulted ChatGPT about placing human remains in a dumpster, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that he鈥檚 adding the case to his landmark criminal investigation into OpenAI.
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Florida officials are fighting a court order to expand detainee phone access at the so-called 鈥淎lligator Alcatraz鈥 center, arguing it would be too costly for taxpayers 鈥 but they鈥檝e already spent roughly $34 million in public dollars on technology, IT support, and more, state records show.