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Pembroke Pines, Fla. mayor is ‘mostly false’ on detention center, says PolitiFact

By | 11.11.11 | 3:23 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis said at a recent community forum that his city does not have a vote in the decision to build a proposed immigration detention center in his area, but PolitiFact Florida rates his claim “mostly false.”

Children pack South Texas foster care systems after immigration enforcement claims parents

By | 11.11.11 | 3:06 pm

El Paso and parts of the Rio Grande Valley have some of the nation’s highest numbers of children living in foster care because their parents were removed by immigration enforcement, according to a new study by the Applied Research Center, a public policy institute covering racial justice.

Miami-Dade anti-wage theft ordinance is working, study shows

By | 11.11.11 | 1:08 pm | More from The Florida Independent

People Engaged in Active Community Efforts (aka PEACE) released a study Thursday that finds that Miami-Dade County’s anti-wage theft ordinance is “much more effective” at dealing with wage theft claims than the process in Palm Beach County, where no such ordinance exists. The Miami-Dade measure is under attack in the

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Religious coalition in Palm Beach calls for countywide anti-wage theft ordinance

By | 11.08.11 | 3:54 pm | More from The Florida Independent

People Engaged in Active Community Efforts — aka PEACE, a coalition of  27 religious congregations from Palm Beach County — told 450 of its members Monday night that it is urgent to continue their campaign to create a countywide anti-wage theft ordinance.

Candidates, third-party supporters in Iowa’s SD 18 race calling voters

By | 11.08.11 | 3:20 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Voters in Iowa Senate District 18 head to the polls today to decide between Republican Cindy Golding and Democrat Liz Mathis. But phones in the district have been ringing for days as the candidates and third-party supporters hope to sway and influence voters in their direction.

Arne Duncan says he supports in-state tuition for undocumented

By | 11.08.11 | 3:19 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that he supports allowing the children of undocumented residents to attend colleges at an in-state tuition rate.

Florida GOP state senator files bill prohibiting anti-wage theft local ordinances

By | 11.08.11 | 1:56 pm | More from The Florida Independent

State Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, today filed a bill to prohibit Florida municipalities from “adopting or maintaining” local ordinances that crack down on wage theft, the practice of stiffing workers out of money they are owed.

Florida residents buck proposed immigration detention center

By | 11.07.11 | 12:23 pm | More from The Florida Independent

About 250 southwest Broward residents attended a Saturday meeting in the city of Pembroke Pines to tell local and federal officials, as well as prison industry executives, that they don’t want an immigration detention center built in their area.

Meeting between ICE, activists over jail to be monitored by reps for Wasserman Schultz, private prison firm

By | 11.04.11 | 6:31 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Two staff members from the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, will be at tomorrow’s meeting between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and residents of southwest Broward County, at which they will discuss an immigration detention center scheduled to be built nearby. A representative from the Corrections Corporation of More…

ICE will meet with opponents of detention center, but private prison contractor not attending

By | 11.03.11 | 2:24 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Pembroke Pines elected officials confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and residents of Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines will meet this Saturday to discuss a proposed immigration detention center.