{"id":356499,"date":"2026-07-29T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:03:07","slug":"immigration-advocates-speak-out-against-increase-in-ice-activity-in-south-florida-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356499\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration advocates speak out against increase in ICE activity in South Florida &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Immigration activists are raising the alarm about what they described as an escalation in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity targeting the Haitian community in the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/us-world\/south-floridas-haitian-community-braces-for-expected-start-of-deportations-after-end-of-court-issued-tps-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">end of temporary protected status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several advocates gathered in front of the ICE office in Miramar to make their voices heard, Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concerned community leaders at the gathering said they have noticed what they called an alarming increase in law enforcement operations in South Florida and throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates specifically called out Miami city leaders and asked them to end policies they said are separating families, as well as the criminalization of immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those who spoke at the event was immigration advocate Thomas Kennedy, a policy analyst for the Florida Immigrant Coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you guys probably know and have covered yourselves, there\u2019s been a significant uptick in immigration enforcement operations, not just in South Florida, but across the country, but it\u2019s obviously hitting us here this state, a state made up of immigrants,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing enforcement operations hitting South Florida, all over Miami-Dade, Homestead, the Lake Worth area, Palm Beach, Central Florida, Jacksonville, and that\u2019s leading to a stress in detention capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants emphasized that law enforcement officers should be focused on public safety, not immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Immigration activists are raising the alarm about what they described as an escalation in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-356499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356499","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=356499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}