Homestead

A former oilfield worker camp off a dirt road in rural Texas has become the U.S. government’s newest holding center for detaining migrant children after they leave Border Patrol stations, where complaints of overcrowding and filthy conditions have sparked a worldwide outcry. Inside the wire fence that encircles the site are soccer fields, a giant air-conditioned tent that serves as...

Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro expressed concern over Twitter about the conditions detained migrants face. He shared video that he took after smuggling a device into a detention center during a visit on July 1.

Democratic presidential hopefuls face a challenge as they gather in Miami for the opening round of primary debates: presenting immigration ideas that go beyond simply bashing the Trump administration.

Former White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly has joined the board of the conglomerate that operates the largest facility for migrant children in the country, the company announced Friday. Caliburn International’s CEO James Van Dusen confirmed the appointment of the former Trump cabinet member in a news release.

Divers are in the waters of Biscayne National Park and trying to solve a mystery almost two centuries old. The underwater archeologists with the National Park Service are out to make rare find. They are on a hunt for a ship called the Guerrero that was carrying slaves to the Americas.

The same man sentenced last month for breaking into Taylor Swift’s Tribeca townhouse to take a nap was nabbed again Thursday after he allegedly used a concrete block to smash a glass patio door and ransacked her place, cops say.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will keep open through early 2019 a tent city in Texas that now holds more than 2,000 migrant teenagers, and also will increase the number of beds at another temporary detention center for children in Florida. The Tornillo facility opened in June in an isolated corner of the Texas desert with capacity for up...

Children torn from their parents, refugees turned away, tear gas fired on asylum-seekers, and a president who says he’s making good on promises to protect the nation’s borders. In a breathless 2018, they were just a handful of headlines on immigration, one of the year’s most dominant issues. Combined with a relentless stream of administrative memos and changes in regulation...

Florida’s disjointed property insurance system that relies almost exclusively on small and midsize companies will take a multibillion dollar loss from Hurricane Michael, but has sufficient reserves and backups that providers should be able to pay claims without problems, analysts say. Major national players like State Farm, Allstate and Liberty Mutual write few if any homeowners policies in Florida because...

Demonstrators are rallying and protesting over the weekend to decry the separation of immigrant parents from their children by U.S. border authorities, and Democratic lawmakers are saying they aren’t convinced the Trump administration has any real plan to reunite them. Activists, elected officials, humans rights advocates and religious leaders gathered Sunday morning at the Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas,...

A lawyer for young migrant children at a Florida detention center says her clients, one as young as 3 years old, are traumatized by the forcible separation from family members. WTVJ’s Marissa Bagg reports.

For years, Yazmin Irazoqui Ruiz saw Cinco de Mayo as a reason to eat tacos and listen to Mexican music. The 25-year-old Mexican-born medical student left Mexico for the U.S. as a child and celebrates the day to honor a homeland she hardly remembers. But the Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident said she’s reluctant to take part in Cinco de Mayo...

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Matthew — recently a Category 4 storm and at one brief point a fierce Category 5 — will remain powerful at least through Thursday night.

A group of police officers have picked up the check for a couple who didn’t want to sit near them at a Pennsylvania restaurant. A server at the Eat’n Park restaurant in the borough of Homestead tells Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV that the couple wanted another table after being brought to a table near the officers Saturday. Officer Chuck Thomas says he...

The U.S. government plans to open new shelters in Colorado, Florida and New Mexico to house young Central American immigrants.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter wants to raise property taxes by 9 percent to raise millions for the struggling school district.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter honors three inspirational women who passed away over the past year.

South Florida’s water managers are releasing thousands of fish into canals to eat plants clogging those waterways.