Migrant Detention

Dagon Flores and Marvin Agular were there to support those who will be affected by the SB 1718 law. A massive march and rally was held June 28, 2023, beginning at Centennial Park, marching through downtown Fort Myers, along Palm Beach Blvd to El Nuevo Maguey a restaurant on Palm Beach Blvd. From June 28th to July 5th the immigrant community of Florida have entered into a work stoppage to protest the now law SB 1718. The marched to demonstrate their value to the economy.

Even before Trump took office, immigrants across the country lived in fear of deportation

Eileen Kelley

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.

Police face off with demonstrators during an immigrant rights protest Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Immigration

'A Day Without Immigrants' movement is meant to show how crucial immigrants are to the U.S.

Eileen Kelley

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

Immigration

Communities across the region feeling crippled by mass deportation orders

Eileen Kelley

Haitian American advocate calls measures such as school and church raids un-American

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question during a press conference Sept. 7, 2022, in Miami, Fla. The Republican governors of Florida and Texas have delivered migrants on planes and buses to Washington, D.C., New York City, and even Martha's Vineyard, but they may just be getting started.

DOT and a Florida contractor face a public records lawsuit over migrant flights

The News Service of Florida

An open-government group has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Transportation and a state contractor, alleging they did not comply with public-records requests stemming from controversial flights of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference Sept. 22, 2022, in Miami.

A South Florida lawmaker is challenging the constitutionality of Gov. DeSantis' migrant flights

The News Service of Florida

The 13-page lawsuit emphasizes that the migrants, mostly from Venezuela, had been in Texas, not Florida, after crossing the border with Mexico.

A man, who is part of a group of immigrants that had just arrived, flashes a thumbs up Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies.

Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas

The Associated Press

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard on the orders of Florida Gov.

Government & Politics

Migrant Detention Protests Held Across Southwest Florida & U.S.

John Davis

Protesters in Southwest Florida demonstrated Tuesday afternoon, at events in Bradenton, Cape Coral, Naples and Sarasota against the Trump administration’s…