SB 316<\/a>, otherwise known as the Visible Act, would ban masks, require police to self id, plus create safe spaces around schools and churches.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are not a dictatorship. Secret police belong in the history books, not Florida streets,\u201d State Rep. Angie Nixon said.<\/p>\n
In addition, Florida Democrats want to once again offer in-state tuition to DACA recipients, also known as dreamers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will always work as hard as I have to make my dreams come true. No matter how hard the odds are stacked against me. I love my beautiful sunshine state of Florida and I\u2019m a Florida kid though and through,\u201d UCF student and DACA recipient Alexander Vallejos said.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Florida stopped offering in-state tuition to the state\u2019s undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, look, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to ask hardworking Floridians who are struggling to make ends meet to spend $45 million subsidizing the education of people who shouldn\u2019t even be here,\u201d Rep. Randy Fine said.<\/p>\n
The proposals come as cities nationwide are witnessing immigration protests.<\/p>\n
And wrestling with debates over whether cities should cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not a recipe for success. That is not the way that you do business. And so, we\u2019re going to continue with. With positive cooperation. It\u2019s certainly made a difference here in Florida,\u201d Gov. Ron DeSantis said.<\/p>\n
Things in Minneapolis are especially tense \u2014 where ICE agents have now shot and killed two U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey feel they can do anything they want, even including executing a United States citizen, Alex Pretti in broad daylight,\u201d State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith said.<\/p>\n
The bill still has to go through three committees before it can be voted on by the full Senate.<\/p>\n
District court of appeals agrees to invalidate over 70,000 signatures in favor of state marijuana amendment<\/p>\n
A district court of appeals ruled with the state to invalidate more than 70,000 petition signatures for a recreational marijuana amendment.<\/p>\n
The state alleged they were signed by \u201cinactive voters\u201d and were gathered in violation of state law.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit challenging that was brought by Smart and Safe Florida, a group trying to get enough petition signatures to put the amendment on the November ballot.<\/p>\n
They have to submit 900,000 signatures by February 1.<\/p>\n
According to the Florida Division of Elections, so far the group has submitted just over 760,000 valid signatures.<\/p>\n
The figure is about 86 percent of the required total.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit against the state on the petition signatures is just one of the many legal challenges.<\/p>\n
In a separate challenge to the amendment, a judge upheld the state’s decision to throw out 200,000 signatures, ruling that Safe and Smart Florida did not display the full text of the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Democrats release a plan to require immigration enforcement officers to identify themselves, and an appellate court invalidates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2198,28,30,29,2200,2204,115,139,2206,2199,2201,4368,275,135,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-134416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-app-political-connections","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-instagram-bn9","13":"tag-instagram-n13","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-political-connections","17":"tag-political-connections-full-episode-ctv","18":"tag-political-connections-in-line-video-player","19":"tag-saundra-weathers","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-trending-topics","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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