Immigration

Lucas Benitez is a founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He is now in the company of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Lewis and the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet

In the past six years Antonia Rios had became a face and the voice of calling for change and dignity.

Biographer Laura Tillman recounts Lalo Garcia's memories of working in the Florida fields.

The Lee County Legal Aid Society has begun representing immigrant children and teens.

Theatre Conspiracy at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers is mounting a production of Pulitzer-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s drama “Sanctuary City” exploring friendship and the plight of DACA DREAMers.

Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City" opened Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2019. Before its run was halted just six weeks later by the COVID pandemic, the dense drama garnered a number of awards, including the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Theater Development Grant. The play opens locally at the Alliance for the Arts on August 17.

Migrant workers and advocates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging part of a new Florida law that makes it a felony to transport into the state people who enter the country illegally, arguing the law is vague and will lead to “unlawful arrest, prosecution and harassment.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis has touted the laws as strictest in the country. Critics says the it will hurt the economy

Humanitarian-aid orgs say the state’s newest anti-immigration laws will hurt it, in the long run.

Describing the relocations as “voluntary,” the state Division of Emergency Management confirmed Tuesday that Florida directed two flights that transported migrants from Texas to California.Division spokeswoman Alecia Collins also pointed to a more than two-minute video posted on the social-media site Rumble that showed images of people filling out forms, listening to upbeat music in a stretch vehicle, walking across an airport tarmac and celebrating their arrival in California.