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March 30, 2023

A popular, but noxious, piping fix is sickening people. And it’s throughout America’s sewers.

October 14, 2021

Left to rot: Collapsed condo born of botched construction and evidence of money laundering

July 26, 2021

After 11 years in ICE lockup, 72-year-old Cuban has a new life: homeless, haunted but free

February 2, 2021

Cuban ICE detainee called ‘abuelo’ is free after 11 years. Now he doesn’t have a home

December 31, 2020

‘This is purgatory.’ Cuban ICE detainee held so long his cellmates call him ‘abuelo’

October 29, 2020

Cuban detainees: ICE forced us to sign forms saying we wanted to go back, ‘visit’ family

October 28, 2020

An asylum seeker is freed, then rearrested, as ICE makes Cubans languish in detention

July 15, 2020

Sex abuse claims revealed at Homestead shelter, where staff was not vetted for child abuse

June 17, 2020

‘Either he’s dead or he’s been kidnapped’: ICE detainees go ‘missing’ amid coronavirus

June 10, 2020

Here’s how Miami-Dade Schools transformed a secret migrant camp into a makeshift summer school

May 2, 2020

‘It’s like a shell game’: Immigration lawyers move to close ICE loophole in federal ruling

April 30, 2020

ICE detainees: ‘We don’t have masks so our blankets and God are all the hope we have’

April 10, 2020

‘There was blood’: Fights break out at Miami detention center over coronavirus fears

April 7, 2020

Inmate at Krome detention center tests positive for COVID-19. Here’s how ICE kept it quiet

March 1, 2020

At this secret camp for undocumented migrants, a new experience for the kids: School

September 24, 2019

Fake engineer accused of trying to bilk millions from Homestead sets up shop in Las Vegas

July 27, 2019

Read the entire hurricane plan for the Homestead detention center

July 26, 2019

Homestead detention center finally has a hurricane plan. Here’s what it says.

July 12, 2019

Homestead isn’t just for kids at the border, it’s for kids living in the U.S. their whole lives

June 27, 2019

How a stepladder in Homestead became South Florida’s most important political prop

May 31, 2019

Thousands of kids live in tents in Homestead. Do the feds have a hurricane plan?

May 22, 2019

Amid controversy over debts, Steve Shiver resigns as Miami-Dade police union chief

May 22, 2019

He once ran a multibillion-dollar government. Now his own finances are in ruins

May 1, 2019

Critics deplore this migrant shelter. Its operator just got a huge, hush-hush no-bid deal

March 15, 2019

Worker tried to warn others FIU bridge was unsafe. The collapse left him in a coma

December 28, 2018

Their daughter was crushed by the FIU bridge. They long for answers from NTSB and God.

May 22, 2018

The FIU bridge crushed their daughter. Her iPhone survived — but they can’t unlock it.

August 5, 2017

They say they were wooed with hefty salaries – then stiffed by ‘convincing conniver’

May 28, 2016

Records show Homestead councilman has driven city car for personal use

December 10, 2015

Developer to Homestead: Keep the $3.5 million, I’ll let golf course go brown