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• The beginning of the school year is hard for any student-but what about a student who has recently immigrated either by themselves or with their family.
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• Immigration advocacy groups, churches and the city of South Miami filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody on Tuesday.
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• In addition to human concerns and political stakes, immigration plays a very important economic role in the U.S., especially in Florida and here in Central Florida, according to economic analyst Hank Fishkind.
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• Dozens gathered Tuesday in downtown Orlando to call on the Trump administration to close detention centers housing migrant children. Together the protesters chanted.
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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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