immigration

According to the approved rule, any person “who is present in the United States unlawfully” will not be eligible for enrollment beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year.

Dos días antes del primer día de clases, oficiales de inmigración arrestaron a Sebastián Jiménez Peroza, de 17 años —estudiante y atleta de la escuela secundaria Gainesville High School— y al resto de su familia.

Within a week, the family of four was separated among three different detention facilities in two states.

Alligator Alcatraz closed on June 25, just shy of its one-year anniversary. But even before it opened on July 1, 2025, the facility faced numerous lawsuits.

At a State Immigration Enforcement Council meeting Tuesday, Florida’s top cops said some are barely cooperating or not engaging at all in President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Uthmeier had sent out a memo saying the judge was legally wrong and that he couldn’t prevent police officers and deputies from enforcing the law.

Around 30 Gainesville residents — from concerned citizens, parents, teachers and students — gathered at the Matheson Museum on Tuesday to express their concern over the Alachua County School Board's policy to cooperate with immigration officials on school campuses.

City leaders in Fort Myers abruptly reversed course Friday after threats from Florida's governor and attorney general and voted to allow police officers in this southwest Florida city to enforce federal immigration laws.

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.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping new law Thursday that puts him in charge of a new state board of immigration enforcement, toughens punishments for crimes committed by immigrants in the U.S. illegally and requires state and local governments to cooperate with federal deportation efforts. The new law also cancels in-state tuition for immigrants at Florida’s public colleges and universities who are here illegally and prohibits the state from issuing driver’s licenses to those immigrants.