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General assignment reporter focusing on immigration and education @WUSF reach me at [email protected] | Past: @SavannahNow @AlhambraSource @USCAnnenberg | she/her
Tampa, Florida
Joined January 2011
Last ep of the #TripwirePod is finally here y’all. It’s been an honor and journey to work on this project. Ep. 7 chronicles the efforts to commemorate the 1971 Thiokol Chemical Explosion that killed 29 in Woodbine, GA. Remembering Woodbine .
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It's been more than 50 years since the Thiokol explosion. Today, it's remembered by two lines in history books. But one group aims to change that.
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Trump administration pushes states to exclude immigrant students from in-state tuition.
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The Justice Department argues these tuition laws unfairly offer a benefit to foreigners that is unavailable to U.S. citizens and legal residents.
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DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deport. The administration has tried to strip protections from DACA recipients in recent months.
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"DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country," said DHS assistant press secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who then encouraged "every person here illegally" to self-deport.
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In Florida, where the gov. has promised to lead the immigration crackdown, daily arrests have tripled compared to last year —and a growing share are of those with no criminal record. For my latest, I dive into ICE arrest data from The Deportation Project.
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In Florida, where the governor has promised to lead the immigration crackdown, increased arrests mirror the national trend, especially for those with no criminal background.
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Florida Highway Patrol tapped into a vast private surveillance network, Flock Safety, performing hundreds of searches for license plates scanned by cameras — to aid in immigration crackdowns from @SunSearchlight .
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Florida Highway Patrol has tapped into a vast private surveillance network — performing hundreds of searches for license plates scanned by cameras controlled by the controversial surveillance company...
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Maria Martinez’s family are pleading for her release from ICE. According to her lawyer, she’s part of a growing population of detainees without a criminal background as immigration enforcement intensifies across the country.
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Maria Martinez, 22, who is in the country without legal documentation, was stopped for a traffic violation in North Port, then handed over to ICE. Her family hopes she can be released on bond.
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Pasco-Hernando State College faculty say their trust in the upper administration has eroded amid a string of resignations and terminations. They want answers on the origins of an enrollment report that pushed the former president to resign last month.
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Jesse Pisors resigned as PHSC president after being accused of concealing enrollment data. An ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis was named interim president, and more resignations and terminations followed.
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Florida students who lack legal status are expecting tuition costs to triple. As part of a broader immigration crackdown, the state is no longer letting them pay the in-state tuition rate. Two students share what this could mean for their future.
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Florida lawmakers are getting rid of a waiver that lets students without legal status pay in-state tuition. We hear from two students about what this means for their future.
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ICYMI: The story of Heidy Sánchez, a mother of a one-year-old who was deported to Cuba, aired this morning. Her family is asking for humanitarian parole to bring Sánchez back. Otherwise, it’ll likely take years for her to reunite with them.
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A Florida family was torn apart when the mother of a 1-year old was deported to Cuba, even though she is married to an American citizen.
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Faced with prospect of campus police helping ICE agents, some Florida professors speak out from @kerrsheridan .
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A handful of Florida universities, including UF, are now officially signed on to have campus cops help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, while faculty at three universities have asked...
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As Trump ramps up deportations, accounts of people being detained at immigration check-ins are surfacing across the U.S. That's what happened to Heidy Sánchez, who was deported to Cuba last week. She wonders when she'll see her daughter and husband again.
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Lawyers and families across the U.S. are seeing more people being detained at immigration appointments, striking fear into the immigrant community.
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ICYMI: Hundreds protested on behalf of Luis Marcano and Frengel Reyes, who were asylum seekers living in the Tampa Bay. The families of the two Venezuelan men say they’re among the more than 200 deported to El Salvador’s maximum security prison CECOT.
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Family members of the men say they are asylum seekers who were wrongfully detained and deported to El Salvador's maximum security prison known as CECOT.
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A suspect has been taken into police custody and multiple victims were reported in a shooting at Florida State University. Follow for updates on @wusf .and @DouglasSoule.
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The two people who died were not students at the university, authorities said. Their identities are currently unknown.
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RT @amowreader: We're tracking international student visa revocations across the country, follow our data updates here:. .
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I met Bob Ong randomly at my gym when he gave me a red envelope for Chinese New Year— well turns out he’s a kung fu master with deep roots in New York’s Chinatown. Here’s the story about how he’s keeping the practice alive today in Tampa! .
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Bob Ong, 70, has been practicing the martial art for almost as long as he's been alive — from New York's Chinatown in the 1960s to Tampa today.
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A group of Dreamers and immigrant advocates are hoping to convince legislators to soften a bill that takes away in-state tuition rates for undocumented students (including DACA recipients).
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They're making their voices heard in Tallahassee. They hope to convince legislators that eliminating in-state tuition for students like them does more harm than good.
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Dozens of community members showed up to a Pinellas County School Board meeting to both thank the district for not taking part in an immigration enforcement program and to urge them to continue protecting students amid broader immigration crackdowns.
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Dozens of community members spoke at Tuesday's board meeting, urging school officials to do everything they can to prevent immigration enforcement on campuses.
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A public records request sheds new light on plans to transfer the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus to neighboring New College of Florida, from @kerrsheridan.
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The documents said, in part, that “there is little offered at USF-SM that regional/local students couldn’t access more easily at other regional options or by USF in Tampa, St. Petersburg, or online.”
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USF is among dozens of universities being investigated for allegedly using racial preference in their graduate programs or scholarships. Here’s a closer look at the McKnight Fellowship that aids African American and Hispanic doctoral students.
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The University of South Florida is among the institutions under scrutiny for participating in "race-based" scholarship programs, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
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Pinellas school officials clarified that district police will not be joining the immigration enforcement 287(g) program. The blunder comes amid already heightened fears, now that schools are no longer “protected areas.”.
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The district police chief explained how he had mistakenly applied for a program that aids federal immigration agents. The application is no longer being considered.
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