An illegal immigrant from India is facing charges after allegedly causing a deadly highway crash in Florida that killed three Americans. Authorities confirmed that Harjinder Singh entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 through the southern border before obtaining a California commercial driver’s license. Singh now faces three counts of vehicular homicide and immigration violations.
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced that a Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting has been created amid Texas' mid-decade redistricting effort.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis confirmed that at least 100 detainees from the Everglades-based detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz have been “fully deported,” emphasizing the facility's role in President Trump’s push for expedited immigration enforcement.
An 18-year-old mother in Lake City, Florida, has been charged with felony child neglect after police say she left her 2-year-old daughter locked in a hot car while she returned to finish watching a movie. Authorities say Tipora Merriex placed the crying toddler inside a 2002 Cadillac Escalade and went back into the theater to continue watching the “Smurfs” movie with her siblings.
The top law enforcement official in Polk County, Sheriff Grady Judd, says federal immigration facilities are near capacity due to Florida’s aggressive interior enforcement.