Immigration Law Group of Florida, P.A.

09/10/2026

According to The Guardian, immigration judges across the United States have recently been instructed to deny some of the most vulnerable people appearing in court the time needed for their visas or green cards to arrive. A source told The Guardian that hundreds of immigration judges attended a mandatory presentation about "continuances" — a legal tool which has historically been used to give immigrants more time to find lawyers, build their cases, or wait for approval of their application for lawful status or immigration relief at another federal immigration agency. According to images of the presentation slides used that were shared with The Guardian, the training emphasized that judges should tightly restrict continuances in favor of faster adjudications, even when granting more time would allow people to receive legal protections to remain in the United States, such as through a visa or green card they have qualified for or had approved and are simply awaiting.

Exclusive: Mandatory training for judges also urged them to threaten attorneys who accept too many cases

09/09/2026

For the past year, 78-year-old Sister Rose Kuhn has traveled to court hearings every Wednesday in the border town of Harlingen, Texas, to comfort immigrants, pray with them, and ‘let them know that they’re not alone,’ she says. One undocumented migrant facing imminent deportation called Sister Kuhn his ‘angel.’ She chose Wednesdays because that’s when most unaccompanied migrant children have their hearings.

'I tell them that they are very valiant. And I just think they’re really good people, and they would be a great gift for our country if they are allowed to reunite with relatives in the United States.'

09/08/2026

The United States deported more than 100 people to Haiti last Thursday as it increases deportation flights to the Caribbean nation. The flight departed from Louisiana and landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien. "This is the third consecutive Thursday deportation flight to Haiti, marking a shift from monthly to weekly flights," said Human Rights First's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Monitor, which tracks flight data. More than 200 people were deported to Haiti in late August on two separate flights. Activists have decried these deportation flights, which included Haitians who recently had Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and were living and working legally in the United States.

The U.S. government has deported more than 100 people to Haiti as it ramps up such flights to the troubled Caribbean country.

09/08/2026

Yerandy Gonzalez shook his head as he looked at the line of hundreds of people in front of him. "This is crazy, man," Gonzalez said. The long line — which stretches across a few blocks on a humid Tuesday morning — is of people waiting to go inside Miami's immigration court. All of the people in line have a scheduled hearing, and for many people it is their first court appearance. The long lines, however, are not a glitch. They are the result of a new Trump administration tactic known as "mega master" hearings, which are designed to quickly deport people. Before the advent of these "mega master" hearings, each judge would typically handle about three dozen cases per day. But now, judges regularly have a docket of over 100 people, and they are seeing dozens of immigrant cases at once.

Chaos unfolds at the Miami immigration court after judges are assigned mega master calendars, hearings where judges see more than 100 immigrants at once.

09/07/2026

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Casey Revkin sends over $10,000 a week through her nonprofit to families being held at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas, so they can buy food and other essentials.

Over the last seven months, she said she has helped families buy everything. https://wapo.st/4cYBn1Z

09/06/2026

"Brian José Morales García was riding beside his boss through the Texas Hill Country, bound for an air-conditioning job near Fredericksburg, when a state trooper stopped their pickup truck.

Over the next four days, the 25-year-old was shuttled through a succession of detention facilities. Along the way, his attorney said, he was stripped, shoved and threatened with years in prison. By April 7, he was aboard a deportation flight to Mexico.

The country sending him away was his own.

Morales García was born in Denver, according to a copy of his birth certificate reviewed by USA TODAY."

A traffic stop in Texas landed Brian Morales García, a U.S. citizen, in immigration custody. After he was deported to Mexico, a lawsuit helped bring him back.

09/04/2026

Immigrant advocates and immigration attorneys have reported that more than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant youths remain at risk of not having legal representation, a month after the Trump administration ended a federal contract with an organization providing legal services to migrant children. Most of the children who initially had lawyers through funding provided by Congress still have access to lawyers because the Acacia Center for Justice and its network of 100 nonprofits have continued to represent the minors without pay. But unaccompanied immigrant minors who have been placed in federal custody since the contract expired after July 31, likely are without attorneys as they appear in immigration court, said Michael Lukens, executive director of the Amica Center for Justice, part of the Acacia network. Without a lawyer, fewer than 10 percent of immigrant children win the right to remain in the United States while their cases go through immigration court.

WASHINGTON— More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant youth remain at risk of losing their legal representation, one month after the Trump administration ended a federal contract with an organization that provided legal services to migrant children, advocates and attorneys said Tuesday.Most of thos...

09/04/2026

ProPublica reports that federal courts have responded unevenly to the surge in habeas petitions challenging immigration detention, with some judges resolving cases within days while others take months. Its analysis found particularly long delays in Mississippi and Louisiana, where median case resolution times were 92 and 89 days, respectively, with some detainees waiting months for a decision.

Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.

09/04/2026

A federal grand jury has indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on charges of making false statements about the nonfatal shooting of a man during the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge immigration crackdown in Minnesota last winter. The charges against the officer marked a rare instance of President Trump's Justice Department accusing a federal agent of criminal wrongdoing on the job

The charges are a rare instance of President Trump’s Justice Department accusing a federal agent of breaking the law while on the job.

09/04/2026

"It says any state that draws on massive federal programs to provide financial assistance to low-income residents — which every state does — must report to the Trump administration any immigrant it believes is residing in the country illegally.

Prior administrations concluded that the requirement to report known undocumented immigrants applied only to state agencies implementing those federal programs.

But the new opinion instead determined that the reporting requirement extends to the entire government of a state receiving federal funding through either the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program or Supplemental Security Income — two enormous safety net programs for low-income families as well as elderly and disabled residents."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid on April 11, 2018 in New York City. | John Moore/Getty Images