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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Attorneys for detainees at a state-run immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" said Thursday that they are still facing hurdles in getting access to their clients, despite state claims that those barriers have been removed.
Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its practice test of the 2030 census, raising questions about whether the Trump administration might try to make a significant change to the once-a-decade headcount that failed during the president's first term.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn't have the authority to call a special session to redraw Florida's congressional map in the middle of the decade since that power belong to lawmakers, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The Trump administration is eliminating four out of the six locations that had been slated for a practice test to try out new methods for the 2030 census, raising concerns that the U.S. Census Bureau might not learn enough about communities that have been traditionally difficult to count.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- An opinion by Florida's Republican attorney general calling into question the constitutionality of dozens of state laws which support minority contracting and promote diverse appointments ignores that racial discrimination still exists and could harm the state's Black residents, Democratic state lawmakers said Thursday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- One of the three court challenges to an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades has ended after the immigrant detainee who filed the lawsuit agreed to be removed from the United States and will be out of the country soon, his attorneys said.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how it will be done and who will be counted.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal and state officials withheld evidence that the Department of Homeland Security had agreed to reimburse Florida for some of the costs of constructing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," according to environmental groups suing to shut down the facility.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida is awaiting approval from federal officials to open a third immigration detention center, following "Alligator Alcatraz" and "Deportation Depot," and the state also is looking into a potential fourth detention facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Attorneys for detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" want a federal judge to make an unscheduled, in-person visit to the facility to see firsthand if they are getting sufficient access to their lawyers.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday denied a request for a preliminary injunction to close an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," saying a detainee who asked for the order hadn't shown he was suffering irreparable harm at the facility.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year has decided to use an attorney during the sentencing phase instead of representing himself as he did for most of the trial.
The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. That along with diminished funding and attacks on their independence have put at risk the data used to make informed decisions about everything from the nation's economy to its demographics, according to a new report from outside experts released Wednesday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis designated a leading Muslim civil rights organization as a "foreign terrorist organization," leaders of the group's Florida chapter on Tuesday promised a lawsuit and said the state had no legal basis for such a declaration.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge in Florida is pushing for a resolution in a lawsuit over whether detainees at an immigration center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" are getting adequate access to attorneys.
While some people last Friday dressed in Halloween costumes or handed out candy to trick-or-treaters, a group of U.S. data scientists published a list of "dearly departed" datasets that have been axed, altered or had topics scrubbed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House earlier this year.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Democratic Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has filed papers to run for Florida governor, joining a crowded field of contenders from both sides of the aisle hoping to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two Florida university students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit filed by young Republican groups challenging the 2020 census results, saying they worry that the Trump administration won't vigorously defend the case.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal lawsuit that temporarily had interrupted operations at an immigration detention in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" was paused Wednesday by an appellate court because of the government shutdown.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida officials failed to disclose that they had applied for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," leading to a false impression before an appellate court panel that put on hold a judge's order to wind down operations at the facility, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two young Republican groups have challenged statistical methods used to produce the results of the 2020 census, four years after the numbers were released, as the GOP continues its growing attack on the numbers from the last U.S. head count.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two men last weekend were wrongly charged under a far-reaching Florida immigration law that's currently suspended by a judicial order, according to a Monday report from the state attorney general's office.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July.
A Trump appointee has been picked to be the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau, replacing a career economist in the interim job, at a time when the Republican president is calling for a new census that excludes people in the U.S. illegally.
A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee made up of scientific experts that was axed by the Trump administration earlier this year is resurrecting itself and meeting Thursday with no official blessing or formal ties to the statistical agency.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal appeals court panel on Thursday put on hold a lower court judge's order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Ron DeSantis says the 2020 census numbers for Florida need "fixing" in a way that would give the Sunshine State another congressional seat.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Attorneys fighting for the legal rights of detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades have their first hearing in court on Thursday since a federal judge ordered operations at "Alligator Alcatraz" to wind down in a separate case.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida's chief financial officer said Wednesday that his office had issued subpoenas to county workers in the Orlando area after they didn't fully cooperate with the state's version of DOGE, which has been examining local governments for wasteful spending.
A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from government websites after President Donald Trump began his second term.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Orlando officials on Thursday denounced the overnight removal by Florida transportation workers of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub where 49 people were gunned down, saying it was part of an attack on LGBTQ lives by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration.
The number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, a research group said Thursday, a major increase that still falls well short of estimates from President Donald Trump and some critics of immigration.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- More than a month after Florida opened "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should handle federal immigration detainees at non-correctional facilities.
President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a central Florida Republican, has been accused by a beauty pageant titleholder of threatening to release intimate videos and private images of her after she ended their romantic relationship, according to a report filed with law enforcement last month.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal and state officials in Florida must produce agreements showing which government agency or private contractor has legal authority to detain people or perform immigration officer roles at "Alligator Alcatraz," the immigration detention facility in the Everglades, a federal judge said Monday.
Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that "Alligator Alcatraz" detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys, are being held without any charges and that a federal immigration court has canceled bond hearings.
A man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in South Florida last year was back in court this week, asking a federal judge to let him represent himself, as prosecutors tried to block him from introducing irrelevant evidence during trial.
Florida's top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.
Florida's top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida's child welfare agency sent a letter to a Florida newspaper telling it to "cease and desist" its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis' wife that is the subject of an investigation.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.
The group run by Elon Musk and his aides to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting some surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau it claims are "wasteful," worrying users of federal data already concerned about the health of the nation's statistical infrastructure.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday his office has tools including suspending officials from office to compel local governments to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in assisting in detentions and deportations.
A federal judge agreed Thursday with Trump administration lawyers to put on hold a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general that is attempting to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states after the once-a-decade census.
The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey that gathers near real-time data about American life.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida officials are holding off updating the state's population projections because of uncertainties about how the immigration policies of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis are going to impact growth.
Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says their inclusion in the past four censuses has had little impact on presidential elections or control of Congress.
Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has decided to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of planning for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding nationwide for another decade to come.
Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has resigned as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of planning for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding nationwide for another decade to come.
Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump's second term in office began Monday.
The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an increase in the count of multiracial people in the United States, defending its method against arguments that the jump was mostly a statistical illusion.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- One of two Democratic state attorneys in Florida who Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis removed from office in what opponents say were political moves won back their old job from voters.
Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren't U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries, according to a new research paper that comes as Republicans in Congress are pushing to add such a question to the census form.
Six places in the South and West will host practice runs four years prior to the 2030 U.S. census, a nationwide head count that helps determine political power and the distribution of federal funds.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Coral Gables Art Cinema will be short more than $100,000 this year. About $150,000 has suddenly disappeared from the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's budget. The Miami New Drama also has an unexpected $150,000 budget hole.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Disney asked a federal appellate court to dismiss its lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, a day after his appointees approved a deal with the company on how Walt Disney World will be developed over the next two decades, ending the last piece of conflict between the two sides.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Now that Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees to a governing district have reached a deal on how Walt Disney World will be developed over the next two decades, the company plans to ask that its federal lawsuit be dismissed, ending the last piece of conflict between the two sides.