undocumented immigrants

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe asked for the preliminary injunction. The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for ICE.

The governor says a similar immigrant detention center is planned at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training center outside of Jacksonville.

A federal judge in Miami will hear arguments Wednesday over the controversial immigrant detention center located in the remote Florida Everglades.

The order is part of a civil rights lawsuit. Federal and state officials must produce agreements showing who has legal authority at the new immigrant detention facility.

DeSantis is encouraging sheriffs and police chiefs to fight to keep staff as ICE seeks to recruit Florida officers who've completed immigration-enforcement training.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says the state's housing capacity for the immigration effort is "a drop in the bucket."

A federal judge found James Uthmeier in civil contempt because of a letter he sent to law enforcers after she ordered a halt to enforcement of a new state immigration law.

A class-action lawsuit alleges that people being held at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades "effectively have no way to contest their detention."

Tribe members are trying to join a lawsuit over the immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. It neighbors Tribe villages in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Democrats report unsanitary conditions at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades, while Republicans say the facility is being operated safely.