Last week, Rick Perry, who is the governor of Texas and a Republican Party presidential candidate, issued strong statements on immigration in Florida that resonated among immigration enforcement-only policy supporters in the Florida Legislature. The Florida Tea Party movement say they will accept nothing short of requiring every employer to check the immigration status of...Read More
The Ensuring Equal Justice Pro Bono Initiative (EEIJ) honored its volunteer attorneys today at a breakfast reception at the Law Offices of Greenberg Traurig, in Downtown Miami. The Miami-Dade Public Defender, Carlos J. Martinez, PD-11’s EEIJ Liason, Sarah Wood Borak, and Justice R. Fred Lewis of the Florida Supreme Court, were proud to recognize some...Read More
With more than 100 residents demanding a stop to the construction of an immigration detention center next to the city of Pembroke Pines due to, as they claim, having been kept in the dark about certain agreements that had been reached, the City Commissioner, Angelo Castillo, has confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has...Read More