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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’s education change, which outright outlawed state colleges from enrolling undocumented students.

Hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that the state would soon designate the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) a domestic terrorist organization, the Muslim civil rights advocacy group filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging that designation as unconstitutional and are calling for an injunction to halt its enforcement.

The Workers Circle, a secular Jewish group that led Freedom Vigils for more than 40 weeks outside Alligator Alcatraz, rejoiced in the announcement by Gov. Ron DeSantis that the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades was being closed.

"Let's call this what it is: Governor DeSantis is abusing his power to elevate one religion and one definition of family over everyone else," the state lawmaker said in a statement.

Trump's immigration crackdown has met with fierce resistance in Democratic-led sanctuary cities, where police are forbidden from assisting and many locals view the masked federal agents as an invading force. That hasn't been the case in Republican-led Florida, though, where about 350 state and local agencies have signed on to take part in the crackdown.

As Florida's new anti-union bill goes into effect, the state's largest public sector union is holding a new election in uncharted territory.

A survey found that about one in three Florida homeowners want to sell their homes but won't because giving up their pandemic-era mortgage interest rate simply costs too much. This equates to more than 113,000 homeowners in the state.

Amnesty International is calling on the Congress and global leaders to halt what it describes as an "unconscionable campaign of extrajudicial killings at sea" carried out by the U.S. military.

Following a state-approved visit Tuesday to Alligator Alcatraz, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democrat from Orlando, said he wants state and federal officials to disclose where remaining immigrant detainees are being transferred amid reported plans to permanently close the detention facility.

Members of the state Cabinet warned Tuesday they won’t hold back on taking legal action against those responsible for blazes that get out of control and affect residential areas as the peak of an already highly active year for wildfires has yet to arrive.

It’s the first installment of the $608 million FEMA grant Florida’s been waiting for since the detention center opened last summer.

Nixon, who is also running as a U.S. Senate candidate, began her protest around noon, hoping to speak with a DeSantis staff member to discuss affordability in Florida.