Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A report issued Friday said that inspectors making an unannounced inspection of the site near Ochopee in January found that detention center staff could not clearly identify which detention standards they used for holding detainees on immigration-related charges. There were also concerns over small metal cages used for confinement at the site.

State lawmakers received an accounting less than an hour before a budget meeting to decide whether to hand over more tax dollars.

A pair of private, for-profit companies involved in the controversial operations and medical care at Alligator Alcatraz are positioning themselves as potential contractors for at least five new adult detention facilities sought by the Florida Highway Patrol.

A day after a protest rally in Fort Myers decried the alleged housing of immigration and customs enforcement agents at area hotels, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the arrest of an undocumented immigrant who allegedly assaulted an ICE agent in Fort Myers Aug. 19.

Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working

Across Florida, law enforcement officers have been asked to gather names, photographs, addresses and other personal information about people they suspect may be in the country without authorization and upload them to a centralized surveillance database during the course of their routine job duties.

A man that a local community group said was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement agents Friday has been identified by the Department of Homeland Security.

Multiple media outlets were reporting Tuesday morning that agents for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency are backing off most traffic stops nationwide.

A food distribution event organized by the SWFL Coalition for Democracy at the New Image Tabernacle Church in North Fort Myers on Friday and Saturday served more than 150 people.

A handful of people protested outside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office in Fort Myers Friday after reports that a man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was related to a legal observer of ICE.