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• President Trump is unveiling an immigration plan that would vastly change who’s allowed into the United States. The administration’s proposal focuses on reducing family-based immigration to the U.S. in favor of employment skill-based immigration. Watch his remarks from the White House Rose Garden live.
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• Experts say there are over one million immigration cases pending nationally. With the government shutdown extending, that number is expected to rise.
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• A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status for people from four countries. At least one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is an Orlando resident. She is among the 300,000 immigrants nationwide affected by the TPS ruling.
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• Orlando has joined cities like Boston and Chicago prohibiting police from asking a person’s immigration status. The policy does not apply to Border Patrol or ICE.
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• Democrats Senator Bill Nelson, Congressman Darren Soto, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and the Mexican Consulate will address policy issues that affect the Latino community. Event organizer Nancy Batista says displaced Puerto Rican families demonstrates the importance of affordable and accessible housing.
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• The Florida Republican Party prepares to kick off its summer conference, the Sunshine Summit, in Orlando this week. How will the immigration debate shape that summit and what impact will it have on elections in Florida this November? Blaise Ingoglia, the chairman of the Florida Republican party, talks to Intersection on the possible implications the immigration debate could bring.
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• Following an outcry over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy that’s separated children from their parents at the Southern US border, President Trump signed an executive order that he says ends family separation. We’re joined by Orlando Immigration attorney John Gihon to discuss what this means for undocumented immigrants including children in detention.
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• Florida agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam says he wants more information about a South Florida detention facility for unaccompanied immigrant children. This week, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and fellow Florida Democrat, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were denied entry to the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.
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• Governor Rick Scott says he doesn’t agree with the children being separated from their families at the border in a letter sent to the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday.
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• A rally and march this afternoon in downtown Orlando will call for an end to an immigration policy separating children from their families. Children have been housed at detention centers for months at a time.
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