Daniel Rivero

6 days ago | wlrn.org | Daniel Rivero |Danny Rivero

Even as Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava seeks to inspect the conditions of immigrants at the Krome Detention Center, immigrant groups and a federal judge say the mayor is in breach of a court settlement, resulting in Miami-Dade residents unnecessarily being sent to the facility.

1 month ago | wusf.org | Wilkine Brutus |Daniel Rivero

The vast majority of local and state police departments nationwide that have signed written agreements to assist the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda on the street level are in Florida. As of Tuesday, 140 law enforcement agencies at the state, county and local levels have signed “task force” agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the nation, according to an ICE database.

1 month ago | wlrn.org | Daniel Rivero |Danny Rivero

For more than two years, members of the Florida National Guard have been dispatched to the chronically understaffed Florida prison system. The emergency measure was originally meant to be on a “temporary short-term basis,” when Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the original Executive Order in September 2022, has stretched longer than planned, leaving some wondering if there will ever be a draw down. The governor has extended the “short-term” order four times since then, most recently in December 2024.

1 month ago | wlrn.org | Daniel Rivero |Danny Rivero

Federal immigration officials are quickly and quietly rolling out a new street-level strategy for how state and local police collaborate with the Trump Administration’s agenda of mass deportations, a model now spreading across Florida and across the nation. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) was the first agency in the nation to reach one of these new agreements. Four other statewide police agencies in Florida have followed suit.