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Wednesday: Harry Truman and George H.W. Bush both enjoyed pitching horseshoes. Bush did it with such luminaries as Boris ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant detention center in the Florida ...

The 14-day stoppage comes as a federal judge considers whether additional construction of the immigration detention facility ...

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit this week challenging an Oklahoma law that provides eligible undocumented migrants ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at Alligator Alcatraz as she considers whether it ...

Siding with environmental groups, a U.S. district judge on Thursday temporarily blocked state and federal officials from ...

The state will still be allowed to operate the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp but is barred from making any further improvements for now.

At the end of July, thousands of Florida sheriff’s deputies and police officers working at departments that partner with ICE ...

Immigration issues are complex. Discussing them is challenging, since key terms are often conflated and confused. Clarifying ...

Report finds that local jails and U.S. Marshals Service contribute to greater immigration detention numbers in US and Florida, beyond what ICE reports.