Laura Morel

“The mosquitoes are getting worse”: Life inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention camp “This facility is not one that is sustainable.”

“The mosquitoes are getting worse”: Life inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention camp

The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year. A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.

ICYMI: The 16 states w/ total or 6-week abortion bans have sustained >$64 billion in economic losses annually since the Dobbs decision 3 years ago today.

Coupled w/ other abortion restrictions, the national cost balloons to to $133 billion, a new analysis estimates.

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Florida is leading Trump’s immigration crackdown Across Florida, hundreds of local law enforcement agencies have stepped in to help ICE.

Florida is leading Trump's immigration crackdown, writes @lauracmorel.bsky.social: Roughly half of the law enforcement agencies that have enrolled this year in ICE's 287(g) program—which deputizes local police and jails with immigration enforcement powers—are from the Sunshine State bit.ly/4lEkXyF

A judge told Florida not to arrest undocumented immigrants. The state did anyway. Even after a court order, Florida law enforcement officers made arrests under a new state law. The judge said she was "astounded" by the violation.

A federal judge paused a Florida law allowing state law enforcement to arrest immigrants for being undocumented.

In a clear violation—that left the judge "astounded"—state law enforcement kept arresting immigrants and sending them to ICE
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Lawmakers are trying to hold crisis pregnancy centers to account Post-Dobbs the GOP has given them millions in taxpayer dollars.

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From Florida to Hawaii, lawmakers are pushing back against taxpayer funded pregnancy centers. With the GOP's support, the centers have received millions post Dobbs.

“That is an inappropriate use of taxpayer money," one state Rep. told me.

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I’d say hundreds of people at this point.

I’m covering protests in downtown Saint Petersburg, Fla., where dozens of people are lining the streets with protest signs. @motherjones.com

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Mass HHS firings gutted "vital" office for reproductive health Trump is dismantling the little-known Division of Reproductive Health. It was critical in helping pregnant people and pushing for better systems for IVF.

NEW @motherjones.com: HHS gut nearly all of the Division of Reproductive Health this week—which could've helped enact Trump's promises to expand IVF & support healthy pregnancies

Spoke to 7 former staffers to report the most complete story thus far on their work:
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