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Axios
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Miami weighs ICE partnership as advocacy groups push back
The City of Miami is expected to decide Tuesday whether to allow its police department to partner with federal immigration authorities and empower them to enforce federal immigration laws. It would be the latest in a growing list of municipalities in the county to do so, following Doral, Miami Springs, Coral Gables, Homestead and others. Why it matters: The resolution could have major implications in a city whose population is more than 70% Latino or Hispanic, with more than half of residents being foreign-born, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. Critics say — and research supports — that partnerships between local police agencies and federal immigration enforcement can erode trust between police and immigrant communities. The other side: Officials have said that municipalities are required to follow state and federal laws and that the goal isn't to target residents based on ethnicity. The big picture: The vote comes amid growing tensions in Miami regarding President Trump's immigration crackdown. Earlier this month, state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Miami Republican and co-founder of the group Latinas for Trump, called Trump's mass-deportation campaign "inhumane," the Miami Herald reported. Driving the news: The city's resolution, proposed by the police department, would authorize the city attorney to enter into a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is the second time the city's agenda includes the proposal. In April, commissioners deferred the item. Between the lines: Gov. Ron DeSantis has made it clear he wants all agencies with 25 or more officers to partner with the federal program and has asked the Legislature to empower him to suspend law enforcement officials who don't cooperate. The latest: On Saturday, thousands gathered at the Torch of Freedom in downtown Miami for the "No Kings" protest, marching, holding signs and chanting slogans, including "No hate, no fear — immigrants are welcome here," multiple outlets reported. A group of about 250 protesters gathered at Pride Park in Miami Beach. What's next: Local organizations — including ACLU Florida, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, and the Miami Workers Center, among others — are calling on residents to oppose the agreement and attend Tuesday's meeting.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Live protest updates: Hundreds gathering at South Florida rallies. See latest
Anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests have started across South Florida as part of nationwide demonstrations. From the Keys to Tallahassee, protesters are gathering in Miami, Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale to rally against Trump administration policies. 'No Kings' organizers have said the demonstrations are to protest against 'abuse of power,' including the crackdown on illegal immigration. Here's what's happening in South Florida: Hundreds of people streamed into Pride Park in Miami Beach Saturday morning, one of several 'No Kings' rallies across South Florida. The crowd, many carrying signs with slogans like 'This is the government our founders warned us about,' formed a circle and invited attendees to address the crowd using a megaphone. Speakers stepped forward to share concerns over issues including the Trump administration's divisive rhetoric, immigration policy and cutbacks to government agencies. 'We were founded as a country — we all learned in grade school — founded in protest to King George,' said Monica Tracy, a 67-year-old retired real estate agent who organized the No Kings rally in Miami Beach. 'Our founding principle is that we didn't want a king, and now we have one.' In between speeches, one man interjected, shouting that the country could not afford to support immigrants who entered the country illegally. Within seconds, the crowd shouted the man down chanting 'no kings' and booing to drown him out. Three police officers quickly arrived and escorted the counter-demonstrator away peacefully along the sidewalk. — Carl David Goette-Luciak By 11 a.m., a crowd of about 200 people had gathered around the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami, many holding signs and waving American flags. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes work that went into organizing the protest, said Raquel Pacheco, co-chair of Indivisible Miami, a progressive grassroots movement that co-sponsored the demonstration along with the 50501 Movement. Pacheco, 50, who was born in Angola and has lived in Miami Beach for 22 years, has long been involved in activism. A former Army veteran, she ran for the Florida Senate in 2022 against Ileana Garcia, the founder of 'Latinas for Trump.' Pacheco expressed concern over what she described as an 'attack on our constitutional rights' and the 'tyrant-type of actions' taken by the government during President Donald Trump's second administration. One of her key goals, she said, is to unite people and encourage them to show up to events like the 'No Kings' protest. 'We believe democracy is something you build every day,' added Ariana Hernandez, Pacheco's co-chair. 'We're raising awareness and creating solidarity groups — that's what we're doing, too.' — Milena Malaver President Donald Trump earlier this week said he doesn't 'feel like a king' when asked about Saturday's nationwide 'No King' protests that rally against his administration's policies. 'I don't feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,' Trump told a crowd of reporters at the White House Thursday while signing a resolution to block California's efforts to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. 'No, no, we're not a king. We're not a king at all,' he said. — Michelle Marchante 'Above average' temperatures are expected this weekend across South Florida, with afternoon highs possibly in the upper-80s or lower-90s and a chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Miami. It's expected to feel hotter, with some parts of the region forecast to experience 'feels like' temperatures ranging from 98 to 102, according to the weather service. While it's forecast to be mostly sunny in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, there's a 40% to 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. The forecast is also calling for mostly sunny skies in the Florida Keys, with highs in the upper 80s and a 30% chance of showers. Anyone who plans to be outside — either for the 'No Kings' protest, to enjoy the beach or other outdoor activities this Father's Day weekend — should make sure to stay hydrated and wear sunscreen. Forecasters also recommend people try to seek shade or avoid being outside during the hottest peaks of the day to reduce the risk for heat exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses. — Michelle Marchante In Fort Lauderdale, drivers will face delays or detours by the No Kings Protests on Saturday. A1A and Sunrise Boulevard will be affected between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Fort Lauderdale police are advising drivers to use Las Olas Boulevard or Oakland Park Boulevard instead. Additionally, the 400 block of Southeast Sixth Avenue will be affected from 2 to 4 p.m. Drivers are advised to use Broward Boulevard as an alternate route to get around. Miami police early Saturday said officers are not planning to close any roads or create detours in downtown Miami for the expected protests near the Torch of Friendship on Biscayne Boulevard. However, officers are monitoring the situation. — Cordell Jones and Michelle Marchante There are more than 70 planned 'No Kings Day' protests in Florida. Here are the locations and times for Miami-Dade, Broward and the Florida Keys: Miami-Dade County: ▪ Downtown Miami: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Torch of Friendship ▪ Miami Beach: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pride Park ▪ Homestead: Noon to 8:30 p.m. at Homestead City Hall Broward County: ▪ Fort Lauderdale: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at A1A and Sunrise Boulevard, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Southeast Third Street and Sixth Avenue. ▪ The protest planned to be held in Hollywood Saturday at North Young Circle was canceled. Monroe County: ▪ Key West: 11 a.m. to noon. The protest's location is private, according to the website. ▪ Marathon: Sombrero Beach Road and Overseas Highway ▪ Key Largo: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Murray Nelson Government Center Read more about the protests here. — David Goodhue Residents from Belmont Village Senior Living in Coral Gables will rally from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Le Jeune Road and Altara Avenue. Though not officially registered under the No Kings movement, the group is focused on similar issues, including Medicare, Medicaid and immigration. Read more here. — Isabel Rivera
Buzz Feed
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Trump Supporters Regret Vote Over ICE Raids
This week, Donald Trump's mass ICE raids have ignited anti-ICE protests nationwide. These ICE raids have received backlash from those on the left — but even the MAGA crowd isn't holding back their disapproval of immigrant families being torn apart. Here's what Trump supporters are saying over on the r/LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit. Ryan Garcia, an American professional boxer who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, recently spoke out against Trump's ICE raids in LA: "I may have voted for Trump, but I can't stay silent about what happening with ICE in LA." The co-founder of "Latinas for Trump," Ileana Garcia, called the recent ICE raids "unacceptable and inhumane," writing, "this is not what I voted for." This Latino Trump voter says he has "logic, empathy, and reason," which is why he doesn't support the ICE raids: One Florida Trump voter lost one-third of his employees at his roofing company to ICE raids: Trump voter: "I feel for this deportation issue and the way it's come of these families deserve to be ripped apart." "I honestly did not vote for deportation or any of that." "At one point in the election, I remember wanting Trump to win, I wanted change, regulation to immigration, NEVER crossed my mind he would begin hunting down our people!" And finally, "I support most of what trump is doing but I have to say I do not support these gustapo tactics of ICE." What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below.
Miami Herald
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Ileana Garcia broke with Republicans on immigration. Will the choice haunt her?
Reports of immigration enforcement agents visiting Miami immigration court and a Pensacola foster home caused one Republican state senator to draw her line in the sand. In a time when breaking with the party can have major consequences, it's not clear if she will face retribution or be the one to turn the tide. State Sen. Ileana Garcia called deportation efforts in South Florida 'inhumane' and 'not what we voted for' last week — a position that few Republicans have vocalized. U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, another Miami Republican, who posted on X that she was 'heartbroken by the uncertainty' her constituents were facing when it comes to immigration enforcement, is among the few to speak out. There has been little indication of support for their statements — but no public backlash from elected officials yet, either. Both Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump are known for clapping back at signs of defiance within party ranks, but so far neither has mentioned Garcia's break. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson defended the Trump administration's deportation policies when asked about Garcia's post but did not reference nor criticize the senator herself. 'Trump should urge both parties to put aside politics and craft policies that genuinely address the needs of those seeking freedom and opportunity,' Garcia wrote in a text message to The Herald. 'Visas, work permits, residency. We need authentic policy writers, not those catering to special interests.' A daughter of Cuban exiles, Garcia had been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, co-founding the group Latinas for Trump and serving as a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson during his first term. However, she's recently become a vocal critic of Trump aide Stephen Miller, credited with many of the administration's current immigration policies. Calls for 3,000 immigration arrests a day and talk of deportation quotas have frustrated Garcia, she said, as ICE agents begin to seek out those who have not committed crimes. In late May, Miami Herald reporters witnessed at least four ICE arrests when people came out of their immigration court proceedings. Earlier this week, ICE detained a 17-year-old Florida foster child, possibly breaking a previous Department of Children and Families rule that staffers are not allowed to turn children over to immigration enforcement. 'I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens,' Garcia wrote in the post on X, 'but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings — in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims — all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal.' 'People voted for this' State Sen. Joe Gruters, a Sarasota Republican who took the lead on immigration legislation at the beginning of the year, defends ICE's latest actions. He challenged the idea that Trump supporters did not expect this, writing 'people voted for this' in a text message to the Herald. 'If there is a detainer order out on these individuals then they should be taken into custody immediately,' Gruters wrote. 'Same thing happens in criminal court, if you are guilty then they detain people immediately. We should not have two different standards.' When asked whether Garcia's stance will affect her politically, he said that Trump was elected largely because of his immigration crackdown promises. Others don't believe she'll face repercussions. As the Trump administration's actions target hundreds of thousands of people in the Miami area, namely Venezuelans, Haitians and Cubans, officials from the local and state level are feeling the pressure, said Juan Zapata, a former Republican state representative and former Miami-Dade County commissioner. Zapata has worked with Garcia before, when the legislature was passing its first package of laws targeting undocumented immigrants in 2023. At the time, she was 'very gung ho' about cracking down on illegal immigration during the Biden administration, Zapata said. But with the flurry of Trump's executive orders, such as removing Temporary Protective Status for Venezuelans, communities in districts like Garcia's are in upheaval. 'I think she finally realized that these kinds of actions are very disruptive to the community, to families, the way it's done,' Zapata said. 'Not everybody's a criminal. So there's this environment now that's been created that if you're here and undocumented, you're a criminal. And she realized it's just too much.' 'An independent thinker' Zapata doesn't think the Republican Party of Florida will retaliate by sending Garcia an opponent in the 2026 primaries, he said. (Republican Party of Florida Chair Evan Power did not respond to a request for comment.) 'What's happening now is that this broad policy of 'let's get rid of everybody who came in here illegally,' you're starting to see the local impact and the fear that it's created,' he said. 'And it's gotten to a point where people start to feel it. And by people, I mean people in elected positions.' Still, he said he thinks it's unlikely anyone else will follow her lead. On the other side of the aisle, Florida Democrats have been pleased to see Garcia's posts. For state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Miami Gardens Democrat, they didn't come as a shock — to him, she's always been 'an independent thinker,' he said. 'Hell yeah, Ileana Garcia,' said Jones. 'I'll be the first to say I'm with you when you're right and I'll call you out when you're wrong. In this instance, she's right. I stand with her.' Currently, Miami's GOP delegation in Washington, D.C., made up of representatives Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez and Mario Diaz-Balart, are in talks to schedule a meeting with Trump's Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem. It is unclear whether they are still planning to meet before the end of the week.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
I outran ICE. Now I'm back on the streets looking for illegal work
When a black Jeep rolled into the Home Depot car park just after 8.30am on Friday morning, Abraham sprung into action. As Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents dressed in vests and helmets climbed out of their blacked-out vehicle, he did his best to warn his fellow illegal migrants camped outside the hardware store in search of work. 'La migra! La migra!' he screamed, before sprinting away from the scene. Dozens of people tried to follow him. 'I felt very scared when I saw them coming but I ran like a flash and they didn't get me,' he says. Like the 100 or so men who gather daily outside the DIY shop in Westlake, Los Angeles, that morning Abraham had been hoping to pick up a day's work from customers in need of help for their home improvements. Most of those he was standing with are undocumented. Nicaragua-born Abraham managed to escape but not everyone was so lucky. At least 40 men, some of whom had lived in the US for decades, were handcuffed and detained by ICE agents who had raided a string of workplaces and Home Depot locations that morning, sparking a wave of volatile protests which have gripped Los Angeles and spread to more than 35 other cities. Despite the pervasive threat of deportation, Abraham was back at the Home Depot parking lot on Wednesday morning to resume his search for work. The targeting of day labourers in Home Depots, workers at car washes and clothing manufacturers marks a gear change in the administration's attempts to ramp up its deportation efforts in order to fulfil Donald Trump's 'largest deportation program' in US history. While officials had initially focused their efforts on those with criminal records, Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr Trump's hardline immigration policy, instructed ICE field officers to begin widening their nets. Mr Miller has set a target of 'at least' 3,000 arrests a day, a steep jump from the roughly 660 daily arrests during Mr Trump's first 100 days in office. He is understood to have directed ICE chiefs to start targeting spots where migrants congregate, specifically naming Home Depot. It is a move that has drawn fierce opposition from not only Mr Trump's political opponents such as Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor, but also from some of the Republican leader's supporters, with Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia, the co-founder of Latinas for Trump, saying the move was 'not what we voted for'. While demonstrations have brought parts of the state to a standstill, the ICE raids have continued at pace, with uniformed officers chasing farmworkers through fields and turning up at churches to arrest migrants. While the majority of migrants have stayed home amid the ongoing threat, Abraham, a father-of-two, who crossed the El Paso border with Ciudad Juarez three years ago, says he has no choice but to take the risk and continue his search for work at Home Depot. 'I'm not afraid to come... I have to work because if I don't work I can't eat,' he tells The Telegraph as he cools himself from the California sun with a pink plastic portable fan. Obdulio, another undocumented worker who managed to flee the Home Depot raid on Friday, had also returned on Wednesday despite seeing at least a dozen people 'grabbed' by ICE agents. The Guatemalan, who has lived in the US for 20 years, was frustrated he could not do anything to help his friends. 'You can't confront them because they're going to take you away, so what we did was shout at people to run and we kept running,' he says. Obdulio, 48, who did not want to give his last name, told The Telegraph: 'We are still in fear because we've heard ICE is still roaming here.' 'We're not criminals, we come to work honestly without harming anyone,' he adds. Standing on the other side of the Westlake Home Depot car park, Edwin Cuadra, who is from Guatemala and has a green card, recounted how he saw ICE agents arriving on Friday morning in his car's wing mirror. 'Those who don't have papers had to escape, they started running,' he says. The number of people out looking for work has since dwindled, he says, because migrants are terrified they will be caught. 'It's very bad,' he adds, becoming tearful. 'They are my brothers, like my family. They need the money to pay rent, to pay bills.' On the sixth day of demonstrations in Los Angeles, a largely peaceful protest of around 1,000 protesters briefly became chaotic when police on horseback charged at protesters and hit them with wooden rods before the area's 8pm curfew came into effect. Officers fired rubber bullets and pepper balls into the crowd before carrying out dozens of arrests and packing protesters into police vans, but the streets downtown were mostly quiet by 9pm. In recent days demonstrations across the city at times became violent, with some agitators setting fire to cars and throwing Molotov cocktails, fireworks and rocks at police. Some of the thousands of National Guard troops controversially deployed by Mr Trump despite governor Gavin Newsom insisting they were not needed have been assisting ICE officers as they round up illegal migrants on raids, standing by with their rifles as agents arrest and detain people. The 700 Marines sent into Los Angeles by Mr Trump will also accompany ICE agents on missions, officials have said, sparking fears that the administration could further intensify the pace of its raids. Mr Newsom has warned the unprecedented militarisation of the state would spread further. 'Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,' he said on Tuesday. 'California may be first, but it clearly won't end here.' The Department of Homeland Security released an Uncle Sam style poster on social media on Wednesday urging members of the public to report 'foreign invaders'. As ICE raids continued in spite of the protests, on Monday morning a Home Depot in Huntington Park, around eight miles away from the Westlake branch, was targeted. Eduardo Baz, 45, who illegally crossed into the US from Honduras 20 years ago, was lucky to have escaped. He had been a safe distance away when he saw federal agents starting to detain migrants in the car park at around 7.30am. The only saving grace, he says, was that it was early so not many people had arrived at the shop. On Wednesday morning he was one of a handful of migrants who had returned to the car park hoping to pick up work. 'Of course we're all afraid,' he says. 'All these years later, they can send you home in one swoop.' 'You're never calm, you're always afraid they might catch you at any moment.' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
