City of Punta Gorda has mixed opinions at their city council meeting on Wednesday, March 19.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office would investigate Monday night's split vote by the Fort Myers City Council that will now block city police from entering into a federal government agreement on immigration operations.

Arguing the termination of Temporary Protected Status for non-citizen Haitians in the United State was unlawful, harmful, out of its purview and on a whim, a group of attorneys, immigrant advocates and Haitians themselves are suing Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary Kristi Noem. The complaint was filed in court Friday.This is Round 2 for many Haitians who faced deportations under the first Trump administration. It is also Round 2 for many others.The complaint was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, the same court that in 2019 enjoined the attempt the first Trump administration’s attempt to end TPS status for Haitians in 2017.

The Urban Institute found that immigrants worried about essential activities such as driving, talking to police, seeking health care services, or taking their children to school a month before Trump came back to the White House.

The Florida Sheriff’s Association plans to bring back a controversial program that faced criticism for racial profiling. The group announced it at a meeting in Polk County Monday detailing how they plan to crack down on undocumented immigrants in the state.President of the Florida Sheriff’s Association Bill Prummel announced they are reinstating a street task force program. It gives state and local law enforcement more power under ICE to deport undocumented immigrants.

The federal government has ordered a Southwest Florida resident, an undocumented worker, to be deported by the end of March. His son worries about how his family will cope.

Florida has more Haitian nationals than any other state. Local advocates says state needs to brace for fallout of a mass deportation.

From LA to New York, to the belly of Florida, immigrants and supporters didn't go to work and school in protest of Donald Trump's immigration policies