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The state leads the nation with more than 481,000 immigration court cases, as a record number of people cross into the U.S. A Tampa immigration lawyer talks about the backlog.

The lawsuit focuses on provisions that criminalize the transportation of undocumented immigrants into Florida. The complaint say it's unconstitutional for a state to unilaterally regulate federal immigration policy.

A Leon County circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the state did not comply with public-records requests about migrant flights to Massachusetts.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted illegal immigration last fall by sending dozens of immigrants from Texas to an island off the Massachusetts coast.

Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo filed the suit, contending the DeSantis administration infringed on the federal government regarding immigration issues.

Florida contends that the Biden administration’s immigration policies result in undocumented immigrants flowing into the state, increasing costs for services such as prisons, schools, and health care

Federal officials became overwhelmed as nearly 500 Cuban migrants landed in or near the Keys between Dec. 30 and Jan. 1, before 100 Haitians in a sailboat arrived in Key Largo on Tuesday. Arrivals forced Dry Tortugas National Park to close.

Immigrant-advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging an “unauthorized alien” relocation program approved by Florida lawmakers earlier this year.

Two top aides to Gov. Ron DeSantis were added as defendants Tuesday in a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from the DeSantis administration flying 49 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September.

A circuit judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a South Florida state senator but offered advice on how the legal complaint can move forward. The suit challenged the use of state funds to transport migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.