A protest challenging the proposed ICE Detention Center in Bradford County is scheduled for Saturday in Starke following a recent vote by the Bradford County Commission to move forward on the project.

The protest drew over 100 participants, shouting chants and sporting signs urging the end of ICE’s time in Minneapolis and the nation as a whole.

Gainesville residents rallied Tuesday outside the Alachua County School District headquarters demanding that Alachua County public school officials revise guidelines they say leave immigrant students vulnerable to questioning and detention by federal agents without parental consent. District officials say the policy complies with state and federal law.

Dubbed the “Deportation Depot,” Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference last week called the vacant Baker prison “ready-made infrastructure.” It once held 1,165 inmates. The governor’s office said the site would hold 1,300 but could be expanded to accommodate as many as 2,000 immigrants.

The lawsuit in Miami against federal and state authorities is one of two legal challenges to the South Florida detention center that was built more than a month ago by the state of Florida on an isolated airstrip owned by Miami-Dade County.

For many immigrants in Gainesville and the U.S, the pressure to assimilate and create a home is overwhelming. The hope for this future, however, begins in an English class.

A nonprofit refugee outreach organization in Gainesville that helps families settle in the area will stop that aspect of its work as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash funding for refugee resettlement.

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and recent executive orders have Gainesville’s immigrant community contacting her office, dePaz Cabrera Immigration Law, nonstop.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised Wednesday to veto a sweeping immigration bill, in the latest escalation of a statehouse showdown between the governor and the state's Republican legislative leadership, who have sparred over whose proposals would best carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.