Years ago, officials told federal regulators that communities just downstream of California’s Oroville Dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself, rather than its… Years ago, officials told federal regulators that communities just downstream of California’s Oroville Dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself, rather than its spillways, were to fail. Fresh from a New York Fashion Week heavy on politics, W magazine is releasing a video with fashion insiders from Diane von Furstenberg to model Doutzen Kroes declaring “I Am an Immigrant.”
Category: Miami Dade County, FL
Why Miami-Dade County could turn undocumented immigrants over to the feds
As of Thursday, jails in Florida’s Miami-Dade County are to hold undocumented detainees indefinitely while federal authorities prepare deportation proceedings. This decision reverses the county’s four-year-old policy of refusing to detain undocumented lawbreakers so Immigration and Customs Enforcement could deport them.
Mayor of ‘sanctuary city’ Miami-Dade says he’ll comply with the feds
Mayors of cities across the nation sounded off Thursday in defiance of President Donald Trump ‘s executive order aimed at punishing local governments that don’t comply with federal immigration officials. But the mayor of South Florida’s immigrant hub took an entirely different stance, ordering county jails to “fully cooperate” with the federal government in light of Trump’s vaguely worded order.