Prof. Charquia Wright, First Amendment Defenses to Alien Transportation Crimes, 32 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 971 (2024) "Florida law now prohibits the transportation of undocumented aliens into the state. Briefings characterize these laws as unconstitutionally...
AIJustice.org "Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice – formerly FIAC), a not-for-profit law firm founded in 1996 to protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants, has a multicultural and a multilingual staff. AI Justice has represented...
FWAF v. Moody, May 23, 2024 "On May 23, 2024, we entered a Supplemental Order on the Scope of the Preliminary Injunction (the “Supplemental Order”) [ECF No. 100]. In that Supplemental Order, we clarified that the preliminary injunction in this...
Farmworker Assoc. of Fla. v. Moody "[W]e remain bound by the pronouncements of our Circuit, which has held that the “unlawful transport and movement of aliens” is a fully preempted field. Ga. Latino, 691 F.3d at 1264 ... Bound by Eleventh Circuit...
Leger v. U.S. Atty. Gen. "In this case, we must decide whether a Florida conviction for lewd and lascivious battery under the 2008 version of Fla. Stat. § 800.04(4)—an offense which the Florida Supreme Court has characterized as statutory rape—constitutes...
Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 27, 2024 "A pair of doctoral students and a professor are suing to block a new Florida law that restricts public colleges in the state from hiring graduate assistants or visiting scholars from “countries...
Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, Aug. 6, 2023 "Almost half of Florida voters back a sweeping anti-immigration law enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis , according to a poll conducted exclusively for Newsweek. The Republican governor, who is seeking his party's presidential...
AIC, July 17, 2023 "Today, legal organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice and American Immigration Council, filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s...
ACLU of Florida, May 22, 2023 "A group of Chinese citizens who live, work, study, and raise families in Florida, as well as a real estate brokerage firm in Florida that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, are filing a lawsuit to combat Florida’s...
Coalition email, Sept. 22, 2021: "A federal court ruled that key sections of Florida’s anti-sanctuary law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, delivering a decision that strikes a major blow to the state’s anti-immigrant policy makers...
Manuel Madrid, Miami New Times, June 27, 2019 "Months before President Donald Trump announced plans for massive immigration raids, members of his administration were busy cooking up plans to deport asylum-seeking families released into the United States...
Nicholas Kulish, NYT, June 13, 2017 - "Marco Coello, then a skinny 18-year-old high school student, was grabbed by plainclothes agents of the Venezuelan security services as he joined a 2014 demonstration against the government in Caracas. They put a gun...
"Responding to a flood of unaccompanied minors crossing the border in the last year, Miami's immigration court has instituted a "rocket docket,'' assigning three judges to exclusively handle cases involving the youths and decide up to 150...
"Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed legislation over the weekend that allows students who are undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at Florida colleges and universities. House Bill 851 was a priority of House Republicans, including Speaker Will...
"After eight days of hearings in December 2012 and February, 2013 in Miami, FL, Immigration Judge Michael C. Horn issued an order of removal for former Salvadoran Minister of Defense General Jose Guillermo Garcia-Merino. Judge Grim issued the finding on February...