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Taking the mask off of ICE | Opinion A bill in the Legislature would ban ICE agents from wearing masks. It isn’t just about abusive agents, writes an immigration advocate, but many instances in which criminals have pretended to …

New from me: Florida bill seeks to stop ICE agents from operating while masked and without identification.

Per Reagan appointed Judge William G. Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason, to terrorize Americans into quiescence… we have never tolerated an armed secret police.”

From Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William G. Young on ICE wearing masks:

"ICE goes masked for a single reason, to terrorize Americans into quiescence… In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

Masks off: Democrats file legislation to require ICE to show faces, present identifying information 'I’m fighting for transparency in our law enforcement by ensuring proper identification of our officers.'

Props to lawmakers Angie Nixon and Carlos Guillermo Smith for taking up our idea for a bill doing the most basic thing: requiring that immigration agents show their faces and identify themselves. Will the Florida Legislature agree that an armed secret police should not be tolerated?

Farmworker asking for prayers as immigration stops their bus and systematically starts detaining them on their way to work. Happened this morning near the town of Ave Maria, Florida.

The officers involved in this detention say they feel like a “newborn giraffe with wobbly legs” when conducting immigration enforcement because their training consists of a “one hour class online”. You can’t make this up.

Here you have a Florida Fish & Wildlife officer detaining an individual who was fishing and admitting they have been directed to “check with immigration on anyone who gives us a passport and doesn’t appear to be a citizen”, which sounds a lot like racial profiling.

This is what happens to parked vehicles belonging to people who are detained when called for routine appointments at the Miramar (and other) ICE processing centers. Their vehicles are often towed, which is a racket for the towing companies involved.

Some people are starting to show up on the ICE locator but its case by case basis. The state of Florida also refuses to answer how many people are currently detained there.

The state of Florida is now removing the U.S. citizen arrest category from this dashboard tracking immigration arrests altogether, but we know they mistakenly detain U.S. citizens, as was the case of Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez in Leon County.

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Miami New Times confirming that a big immigration enforcement operation is coming to South Florida, and deportation officers from out of state are headed to Miami this weekend to assist.

It’s happening. An article is dropping soon.

🚨Another big immigration enforcement operation coming to Florida: DHS is asking deportation officers from other states to head to Miami to "assist ERO Miami" with a 287g operation this weekend. Please be cautious.

Boca Raton Charter Company Appears to Operate Deportation Flights The plane used to send migrants to Africa is owned by a South Florida developer behind several Trump-branded properties.

A South Florida-based charter company appears to have operated the third-country deportation flight that sent ten migrants to Africa earlier this month.

“This incident raises fundamental questions about both the accuracy of Florida’s immigration enforcement data and the due process rights of everyone who resides in our state."

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Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests Florida’s immigration crackdown dashboard reportedly showed the arrests of 21 U.S. citizens—until a local paper asked questions.

In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.

Here we go again: Florida lawmaker wants to allow employers to legally pay certain types of workers less than the state minimum wage. This bill was defeated in the last legislative session due to public outcry.

How Trump is Building a Repressive, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

Highway Patrol Leads Florida in Immigration Arrests, Data Shows "They should be called 'Florida Show Me Your Papers Patrol,'" immigration activist Thomas Kennedy says.

During my reporting, I noticed more than a dozen people listed as U.S. citizens were arrested, according to the immigration dashboard.

After asking the state for an explanation, the number of U.S. citizens arrested suddenly changed to 1.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

After Miami New Times contacted Florida authorities to inquire about U.S. citizens being arrested by immigration enforcement, the figures in this state dashboard showing those arrests were significantly altered 👇

Masked ICE agents asking U.S. citizens for their papers, threatening them with dogs. The stuff of authoritarian governments.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Another disturbing piece of data, 19 people listed under USA as country of citizenship have been arrested since August 1st according to this dashboard on Florida immigration enforcement.

Another revealing bit of data from this dashboard is how weaponized the Florida Highway Patrol has become in the state since being deputized to conduct immigration enforcement. They are by far the police agency conducting the most immigration arrests.

According to a Florida dashboard tracking state arrests of undocumented people, under 0.5% of those have a gang affiliation, demolishing claims of going after “criminals.” They have also detained a disturbingly high number of Guatemalans and Mexicans, signaling targeting of that community.

Florida Is the “Tip of the Spear” The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially, and there’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than...

For @praeyesright.bsky.social I wrote this about Florida, the Everglades gulag, and 287g
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