President Donald Trump is expected to visit Florida&#8217;s new illegal alien detention facility, dubbed &#8220;Alligator Alcatraz,&#8221; after protesters descended on the site over the weekend.
Construction began on the site — which Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-offers-alligator-alcatraz-to-house-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right in the middle of the Everglades&#8221; — earlier this month. According to a <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1938670525145924038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> by Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin, the costs of construction will be paid in part by a Biden-era <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-clawed-back-the-59m-fema-paid-to-house-illegals-in-nyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FEMA program</a> originally used to house illegal aliens in upscale hotels.
Uthmeier proposed the site in response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217;s crackdown on illegal aliens, which has led to a <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/largest-joint-immigration-operation-florida-history-leads-1120-criminal-alien-arrests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record number</a> of arrests. He <a href="https://x.com/WillCainShow_/status/1937980514708631776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> the site &#8220;is ideal because of its surrounding area. It’s a low-cost, already developed 30 square mile area surrounded by the Everglades.&#8221;
Trump is expected to tour the facilities on Tuesday, at which point the facility should be fully operational. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the trip in a briefing Monday, saying the president was visiting to &#8220;underscore the need to pass the Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; which she said will help fund the construction of much-needed detention facilities.
Alligator Alcatraz will reportedly hold 5,000 illegal immigrants as they await deportation from the on-site runway. Amenities at the site include beds, laundry facilities, air conditioning, and medical care — the same Florida uses for hurricane relief, according to DeSantis.
Still, critics have slammed the facility as inhumane.
&#8220;Anyone who supports this is a disgusting excuse for a human being, let alone a public servant,&#8221; <a href="https://frost.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-maxwell-frost-blasts-florida-and-trump-administration-for-alligator-alcatraz-calls-detention-center-a-cruel-spectacle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL).
On Saturday, demonstrators lined the highway between Miami and the facility to protest its construction. In addition to claiming the facility is inhumane, they object to its location in the Everglades, which they say will harm the local ecosystem as well as the nearby Native American community.
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Friends of the Everglades have filed a lawsuit to stop construction at the site. These groups claim that the new project bypasses existing environmental laws and threatens the Everglades&#8217; ecosystem.
&#8220;This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,&#8221; <a href="https://www.everglades.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FOE-Alligator-Alcatraz-Press-Release.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Eve Samples, the executive director of Friends of the Everglades.
&#8220;This is a lazy lawsuit,&#8221; McLaughlin <a href="https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/1939703248492917171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response. &#8220;This land has been developed for over a decade now, so these environmental concerns have been fully handled by the State of Florida.&#8221;
DeSantis echoed this statement in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJfG7L9reHU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> Monday, saying, &#8220;I think people are just trying to use the Everglades as a pretext for the fact that they oppose immigration enforcement.&#8221;
&#8220;We have the president of the United States coming down tomorrow to tout what Florida has done,&#8221; DeSantis said.
Leavitt confirmed DeSantis&#8217;s statement and added that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem would also tour the site. Leavitt praised DeSantis&#8217;s construction of the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility, which she said was a testament to Trump&#8217;s devotion to deporting criminal illegal aliens.

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Trump Plans Visit To Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Amid Protests, Lawsuit

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Florida State Senator Jay Collins has spent the last six days in Cyprus, Israel, and Jordan helping Americans evacuate Israel amid the country&#8217;s conflict with Iran.
Collins, who is teaming up with Grey Bull Rescue and acting as the liaison for the State of Florida, told The Daily Wire that there are just under 5,000 Americans on the list to leave.
“We’re doing all that we can,” Collins told The Daily Wire. “It’s time to get our people home.”
Collins’ team has been assisting Americans traveling to Jordanian airports to get on chartered flights back to the United States. They also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-charters-jets-to-rescue-americans-stranded-in-israel?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DeSantis+Charters+Jets+To+Rescue+Americans+Stranded+In+Israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assisted in evacuating</a> about 1,500 Americans who were on a 10-day Birthright trip to Israel, arranging for them to take a cruise ship to Cyprus, where they were able to board flights home.
Collins said Florida, under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, is the only state government playing a role in evacuating Americans, including those who are not Floridians. According to Collins, Florida is providing some logistical and financial support.
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“We’re the only state doing this,” he said. “I think that leadership matters, we stand for our people and we are willing to protect them, and that’s what we are going to do,” he said.
Florida also played a role in the aftermath of October 7 by evacuating 200 Americans and sending two large planes to Israel with 85 pallets of donated supplies.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1935584613159596418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the State Department is working on getting military, commercial and charter flights, as well as cruise ships to help Americans evacuate as well.
Collins said he has seen a wide variety of Americans evacuate, including elderly people and families with young children.
“Overwhelmingly, many of them thought the Iron Dome was impenetrable, but when these supersonic missiles started landing, it really rocked people’s world,” he said. “It’s just a different kind of munition that they’ve seen in other conflicts. It’s very real.”
Collins shared that one evacuee thought “everything was going to be fine until he saw a drone fly by his window.”
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Newsweek’s senior editor-at-large, Josh Hammer, was one of the evacuees who worked with Collins and Grey Bull Rescue, fleeing with his wife and six-month-old daughter this week.
“For four days after that, we more or less stayed put and tried to ride out the storm,&#8221; Hammer said, adding that he decided to leave after an Iranian ballistic missile struck the town near where he was staying on Sunday night. &#8220;We made frequent visits to the basement bomb shelter in the home where we were staying, having to be ready at a moment’s notice to jump out of a deep sleep and seek emergency protection ASAP in the wee hours of the morning.”
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“I love my Israeli friends and recently published an entire book on this topic,” Hammer added. “But I had to do the only responsible thing a father in my situation would do — get us out.”
Since the conflict began, Iran has launched more than 450 missiles at Israel, with 50 making impact. A total of 24 Israelis have been killed, and 1,217 injured — including 12 in serious condition, 37 moderately injured, and 1,156 with minor injuries. More than 30,735 property damage claims have been filed, and 8,190 people have been evacuated from their homes.
“Grey Bull Rescue’s expertise on the ground is unquestionable,” Collins said. “CEO Bryan Stern and members of his board are incredibly gifted.”
Stern’s <a href="https://greybullrescue.org/meet-our-founder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nonprofit</a> is credited with saving 117 Americans stranded in Afghanistan following former President Joe Biden’s chaotic military withdrawal.
In the next mission, Collins says he hopes to evacuate 300 to 600 people. While the group still has the ability to use ships, Collins says that, as of now, they prefer using chartered jets.
Collins said he has had a positive experience working with the Israeli government — which is currently running repatriation flights for thousands of Israelis stranded overseas.
“The Israelis have been incredibly supportive,” he said. “The entire government has been supportive, and the Jordanians as well. I couldn’t ask for more, frankly.”
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Collins, a Green Beret and combat veteran who lost his leg due to injuries while serving in Afghanistan, said he remains focused while operating under missile attacks and is grateful for Israel’s early missile warning system.
“This is just another theater,” he said. “Israel has an incredible early warning system that gives us a heads-up. I’ve been in combat, and I am not afraid of it, but I respect it. I am just focused on getting our people home.”
Collins said he is unsure if the conflict will come to an end soon, but pointed out the options on the table.
“Either Iran is going to back down or Israel is going to back down, which is highly unlikely,” he said. “It could become an all-out conflict, or there could be an uprising in Iran which leads to a shift back to the Shah and away from Iran’s current regime, which would be amazing. Under the Shah, Iran was much more free, and had a better relationship with America. It would be great for the Middle East.”

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‘Get Our People Home’: This Florida Lawmaker Is Helping Thousands Of Americans Evacuate Israel

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted a <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1935741644101374271">video</a> offering a facility for temporary housing for illegal aliens. Uthmeier calls the location “Alligator Alcatraz” due to its location in the Everglades.
In the video posted Thursday, Uthmeier exhibits the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, located about 50 miles west of Miami in the Florida Everglades. 
Uthmeier described the location as, “an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right in the middle of the Everglades.”
Although the facility has been nearly abandoned, Uthmeier claimed that it could be operational in 30-60 days. After construction, Uthmeier said that “Alligator Alcatraz” would be able to temporarily house around 1000 illegal aliens.
In an <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1935776850275393630">interview</a> with Fox News’s John Roberts, Uthmeier said “We’re going to continue to [detain and deport]. We’ve got thousands of arrests underway. We’re going to enforce the law.”
Uthmeier also commented that, “Florida has been leading on immigration enforcement, supporting the Trump administration and ICE’s effort to detain and deport criminal aliens.”
This comes as Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor, <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1928203005075058782">confirmed</a> the Trump administration had set a minimum goal of 3,000 arrests of illegal aliens per day.
Florida has seen record success at arresting illegal aliens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-100-illegal-aliens-during-targeted-enforcement-operation-tallahassee">one operation</a> in Tallahassee in which over 100 illegal aliens were arrested at a construction site on May 29th.
Another success for ICE and local Floridian law enforcement professionals occurred between April 21st and 26th. Over 1,100 illegal aliens, including members of violent foreign terrorist organizations as well as 378 aliens with final orders of removal, were arrested in the <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/largest-joint-immigration-operation-florida-history-leads-1120-criminal-alien-arrests">largest joint immigration operation</a> in Florida history. 
Uthmeier said that, “The governor tasked state leaders to identify the places for new, temporary detention facilities. I think this is the best one. As I call it: Alligator Alcatraz.”
The 30-square-mile, secluded area offers an efficient and low-cost option for temporarily holding illegal aliens while they wait to be deported, claimed Uthmeier. The facility’s location in the heart of the Everglades limits the necessity to invest in a perimeter fence. 
Uthmeier called the facility “Alligator Alcatraz” because of the risk of attempting to escape, just like with Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay. The Florida Everglades is well-known for its alligator and python populations.

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Florida Offers ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ To House Illegal Aliens

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis chartered four flights to bring roughly 1,500 Jewish-Americans who evacuated from Israel back home to America.
The Americans on a 10-day Birthright Israel trip took an Israeli cruise vessel to Larnaca, Cyprus, while protected by the Israeli Navy. DeSantis chartered four wide-bodied jetliners to <a href="https://x.com/AviKaner/status/1934999128120942953">bring them</a> from Cyprus back to Tampa, Florida, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/17/u-s-jews-fleeing-israel-iran-hostilities-to-fly-home-in-florida-backed-airlift/">reported</a>.
“The remainder of the 2,800 international participants who were in Israel when war broke out on Friday have chosen to depart via other means or have chosen to stay in Israel with family,” the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-858061">Jerusalem Post</a> reported.
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Thank you to Florida governor Ron DeSantis <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> for helping repatriate 1,500 young Americans from their birthright trips in Israel. <a href="https://t.co/VlTqquSGgA">pic.twitter.com/VlTqquSGgA</a>
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) <a href="https://twitter.com/AviKaner/status/1934999128120942953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“We have been working with the Israeli consulate, which has been in touch with the governor’s office,” Joy Prevor, vice president of projects for the Broward Jewish Federation, stated. “We are hopeful anyone who needs to get out will get out, but it is being done in a staged fashion. I just saw a video of the boat to Cyprus. It’s difficult because they were in such a stressful situation.”
“Thank God for the Iron Dome and thank God for Israel having a very developed text alert system,” she continued.
In October 2023, two weeks after the Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, among whom were at least 30 Americans, DeSantis ordered an emergency airlift that brought home another 200 Americans. He also sent two large planes containing 85 pallets of donated supplies.
The donated Medical supplies included 735 Ace bandages, approximately 5,000 hospital gowns, 84 IV kits, 30,000+ needles, 30,000+ syringes, 57 ventilators, and 10,000+ boxes of surgical gloves. In addition to medical supplies, Florida also donated: 1,000+ children’s toys, 300+ sleeping bags, 1,000+ hygiene products, and 2,000+ articles of clothing.
DeSantis ripped the Biden administration at the time, saying, “With the lack of leadership in Washington, we are stepping up to help our allies in Israel who are in need of supplies and our support. As we continue to bring back Americans who were stranded in Israel when the war began, we will also keep sending the necessary health care supplies for Israel to care for those who have been injured.”

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Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey gave a dire warning to any would-be rioters on Thursday, threatening to “kill” anyone who attacks law enforcement.
Ivey outlined expectations for potential protests during a news conference on Thursday, explaining a host of illegal actions and what their likely consequences could be.
“If you resist lawful orders, you are going to jail. Let me be very clear about that. If you block an intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going to jail. If you flee arrest, you&#8217;re going to go to jail tired because we&#8217;re going to run you down and put you in jail,” the sheriff said. “If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County — gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave — in our county, you&#8217;re most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street.”
“If you spit on us, you&#8217;re going to the hospital, and in jail. If you hit one of us, you&#8217;re going to the hospital, and jail, and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that we have here,” he continued. “If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at because we will kill you graveyard dead.”
Days of anti-immigration enforcement riots have rocked the Los Angeles area. Rioters have burned vehicles, attacked law enforcement, and defaced buildings. Looters have ransacked businesses. Many demonstrators have carried foreign flags or worn Palestinian keffiyehs.
The sheriff appeared to have the chaos in Los Angeles in mind when he issued his warnings about protests.
“This has got to stop,” said Ivey. “You&#8217;re watching what&#8217;s taking place out there. You&#8217;re seeing police officers that are being attacked, being spit on, being put in harm&#8217;s way just for doing their jobs. You&#8217;re seeing ICE agents that are being targeted for doing their jobs, and you&#8217;re seeing obstructionists that are doing all of this standing in the way of law and order.”
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🚨 &#39;WE WILL K*LL YOU!&#39;: Florida sheriff has a message for would-be leftist rioters. NOT IN FLORIDA.
&quot;If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at. Because we will K*LL you, graveyard… <a href="https://t.co/rmpqCS9L2F">pic.twitter.com/rmpqCS9L2F</a>
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Ivey’s hard-nosed approach to protests and demonstrations that could take place in Florida over the Trump administration’s deportation policies echoes the stance Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken. DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-aint-california-desantis-lays-out-official-policy-if-youre-blocked-in-traffic-by-rioters?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Florida+Ain%E2%80%99t+California%3A+DeSantis+Lays+Out+Official+Policy+If+You%E2%80%99re+Blocked+In+Traffic+By+Rioters">appeared</a> on “The Rubin Report” podcast with host Dave Rubin in an episode that aired on Wednesday.
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“In terms of the unrest, Florida’s policy is very simple: You have every right to exercise your First Amendment rights to protest and demonstrate,” the Florida governor said. “The minute you cross that line, you are going to be met with serious pushback, and you will be held accountable. We do not tolerate rioting; we do not tolerate civil unrest; we do not tolerate looting; we do not tolerate attacks on law enforcement.”

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Florida Sheriff Warns Protesters ‘We Will Kill You’ If You Throw Bricks At Law Enforcement

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis minced no words when speaking about the rights of citizens if they were surrounded by a mob while in their car.
DeSantis <a href="https://rumble.com/v6uncqd-exposing-the-real-origin-of-gavin-newsoms-ice-riot-problem-ron-desantis.html">spoke</a> to Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report regarding the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and Florida’s policy regarding civil unrest.
“In terms of the unrest, Florida’s policy is very simple: You have every right to exercise your First Amendment rights to protest and demonstrate,” DeSantis explained. “The minute you cross that line, you are going to be met with serious pushback, and you will be held accountable. We do not tolerate rioting; we do not tolerate civil unrest; we do not tolerate looting; we do not tolerate attacks on law enforcement.”
“And so I know they’re planning stuff for all over the country; they tried to do a little protest in Florida, and they actually just held signs, which is fine, but that’s as far as it goes here,” he continued. “I think the problem in places like California is the authorities at both the local and state level; they’re effectively siding with the people that are causing the unrest. And part of it is because California is the Shangri-La of sanctuary states. They give you drivers’ licenses if you’re an illegal; you get in-state tuition; they pay for your healthcare; they will try to stymie ICE and protect you from having immigration law enforced, And so they’ve been doing this over a number of years and I think have developed a sense of entitlement that somehow, federal laws don’t apply to them because they don’t like them. So you’ve had the mayor, the governor, empower that element, not just now, but for many years &#8230;”
Asked what Florida’s policy was when demonstrators crossed the line, DeSantis replied:
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The Hamas demonstration, when that was in vogue, they tried to do that in the city of Miami and the Miami PD got them off the street in 13 minutes. They tried to do it in central Florida on a state road and our state highway patrol. they were able to dispatch them in 11 minutes. And so, yes, there is zero tolerance. You have no right to commandeer streets. First of all it’s just wrong. Second of all, that has huge impacts on people&#8217;s quality of life. You may have a parent needing to go pick up a child from daycare, from a camp, or from a school. You may have somebody who has a medical issue they need to get, and what, you’re going to clog all the roads?
So we have an absolutely zero tolerance policy for that and we also have a policy that if you&#8217;re driving on one of those streets, and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off, and you hit one of these people, that&#8217;s their fault for impinging on you. You don&#8217;t have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida.
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Florida is not playing with its rules on mobs surrounding your car. Take notes, Cali. 
Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RubinReport</a>
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Florida Ain’t California: DeSantis Lays Out Official Policy If You’re Blocked In Traffic By Rioters

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Florida high school students were drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, and told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by The Daily Wire.
During a course for high school children in Miami-Dade County, students were assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as: &#8220;What do you think caused your heterosexuality?&#8221;; &#8220;Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?”; and, “Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?”
Parents were shocked to learn that a professor made their children answer questions like this as part of a Miami-Dade College course being offered to high schoolers. The<a href="https://www.mdc.edu/asa/documents/competencies/pdf/SLS1510%20Preparing%20for%20Student%20Success.pdf"> course</a>, called &#8220;Preparing for Student Success,&#8221; was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and offered in Miami-Dade County, an area that has<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/floridas-miami-dade-county-flips-red-in-voter-registration-for-first-time-in-history"> turned red</a> in recent years. 
“It&#8217;s not normal. I mean imagine if a person, anyone, goes close to your son and asks him these questions, I’d call the police,” a concerned mother whose son was enrolled in the class told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s perversion. Why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls? It&#8217;s absolutely sick. It’s sick.”
Other questions posed to the children included, &#8220;To whom have you disclosed your straight tendencies?&#8221; and &#8220;Why do you insist on showing off your heterosexuality?&#8221; The questionnaire ended by asking students what their reaction to it was and &#8220;about the assumptions you hold about what others are like.&#8221;
The questions come from the textbook &#8220;POWER: Strategies for Success in College and Life&#8221; by Robert Feldman, a senior research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The textbook was printed by McGraw Hill, one of the largest academic publishers in the United States whose products are used in 13,000 K-12 school districts across the country.
After being contacted by The Daily Wire, Miami-Dade College said that it had reviewed the assignment and determined that it would no longer be used.
&#8220;Miami-Dade College is committed to maintaining a safe, respectful, and academically sound learning environment for all students,&#8221; the college told The Daily Wire. &#8220;In response to concerns raised about a classroom assignment, we have conducted a thorough review of the assignment, and it will no longer be used. We expect all those who teach to uphold these standards and will ensure any necessary adjustments are made.&#8221;
The other questions on the assignment were as follows: &#8220;when and how did you decide you were straight?&#8221;; &#8220;is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?&#8221;; &#8220;There seem to be many unhappy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change your sexual orientation. Have you considered changing?&#8221; and, &#8220;why do straights place so much emphasis on sex?&#8221;
According to the textbook, the questionnaire was adopted from the work of Martin Rochlin, a gay rights activist and founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Center of Los Angeles who developed the &#8220;Heterosexual Questionnaire&#8221; in 1972.
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The concerned mother whose son was forced to take the quiz told The Daily Wire that the questionnaire was included in the textbook as means of indoctrination.
She noted that dual enrollment classes are typically recommended for students looking to receive Florida&#8217;s Bright Futures Scholarship, a lottery funded-scholarship for top performing high school academic achievers. She said that teachers should avoid discussing issues of sexuality altogether.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t talk about these things, especially with kids. If you are a math teacher, you teach math,” she said. “These types of courses shouldn&#8217;t exist.”
She also voiced concerns about another questionnaire featured in the textbook on its chapter on diversity. One activity encourages students to determine the diversity of their campus by getting statistics of how many racial minorities attend their school, while another encourages them to &#8220;check your stereotype quotient.&#8221; That includes questions like, &#8220;If you found out that a star professional football player is gay, would you be surprised?&#8221;
The mother told The Daily Wire that she was contacted by the office of the president of Miami-Dade College and assured her that concerns would be addressed. They said the school told them that the quiz would no longer be administered and indicated that they would focus their teaching on what was academically appropriate.
Some parents believe that the content in the quiz may violate<a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=1000-1099/1006/Sections/1006.31.html"> Florida law</a> requiring content to be &#8220;accurate, objective, balanced&#8221; and &#8220;noninflammatory.&#8221;
In its statement to The Daily Wire, Miami-Dade College said that it would continue to provide education that follows state requirements.
&#8220;We are committed to creating a learning environment where students are successful and have the support to achieve academic excellence through fair and unbiased grading practices. We appreciate the engagement of our students, families, and school partners as we remain focused on delivering high-quality education that adheres to state guidelines,&#8221; the college said
The controversy over the curriculum comes as Miami-Dade County has shifted significantly to the right electorally in recent years. President Donald Trump won the county by over 10 points in 2024. The number of registered Republicans in the county also<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/floridas-miami-dade-county-flips-red-in-voter-registration-for-first-time-in-history"> just eclipsed</a> Democrats for the first time in history.

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‘Have You Considered Changing?’: Florida Teens Asked To Consider Becoming Gay In Class Assignment

Education

LGBTQ

Miami

A 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as part of the Biden administration’s scheme to place “unaccompanied alien children” in the homes of unrelated, loosely-vetted “sponsors.”
Wilson Manfredo Lopez-Carillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office in Florida on May 22 and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a minor. 
Police said in charging documents that the victim arrived in the United States in August 2023 as a 16-year-old, and was placed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the home of several people, whose names are redacted but appear to include Lopez-Carillo.
The victim “reported three instances of sexual battery by [redacted] all occurring in February 2024. [Redacted] stated that [redacted] was not present during these incidents, as she would be out with her children selling tamales to support the family. She explained that [redacted] took advantage of [redacted’s] absence to abuse her,” a document said.
While she was in the kitchen, Lopez-Carillo “grabbed her, and took her to his bedroom. He removed her pants and underwear and proceeded to sexually batter her,” police wrote. A second incident unfolded similarly, with the man offering her $100 to keep quiet, which she refused, police said. She did not report the incidents to police initially “due to fear of retribution from [redacted], who had threatened her,” it continued.
The heavily redacted police statement suggested that the adult woman in the house became suspicious and confronted Lopez-Carillo. The victim was given three days to leave the house and “sought refuge with…a friend from church.” The friend contacted the woman who “revealed that [redacted] had sexually assaulted [the victim] which led to her expulsion. [The friend] expressed his shock and concern upon hearing this. He decided to allow [the victim] to stay in a room at his home to prevent her from being homeless.”
Once living with the friend, she felt safe enough to report the abuse to the police. The friend later became the girl’s legal guardian after receiving permission from her parents, and told police another girl had also sought refuge at his home after a person whose name was redacted had attempted to sexually assault her.
Police set up a recorded call where the victim asked Lopez-Carillo why he had assaulted her as a minor, and he “responded by attempting to justify his actions.” He did not deny the incidents but “tried to downplay their significance” and “attempted to shift the blame onto [redacted],” police said. 
“When confronted about the possibility of a pregnancy, due to unprotected sex, he mentioned giving [the victim] a pill,” they wrote.
Lopez-Carillo is being held without bail in a Palm Beach County, Florida, jail, and a judge has determined that he is an illegal alien, according to court records.
The case was first reported by <a href="https://x.com/ImmigrantCrimes/status/1928537806344982826" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illegal Alien Crimes</a> on X.
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More than 120,000 “unaccompanied alien children” entered the country annually during the Biden administration as part of a loophole that let illegal immigrants stay in the country if they said they were under 18 and were not with their parents.
That incentivized families to separate, paying human traffickers to take the children across the border alone. When the children arrived, they were astonishingly vulnerable to exploitation: they didn’t speak English, they were underage, they were in debt to cartels, and they were afraid to go to the police because they were illegal immigrants.
But Democrats had accused President Donald Trump of holding “kids in cages,” referring to the secure facilities developed by the Obama administration. So, when Joe Biden became president, he sought to avoid the charge of hypocrisy by quickly finding places for the children to live.
The problem was there were no safe homes waiting to take in hundreds of thousands of children. So the Biden administration began sending them to live in the homes of illegal immigrant adults who often were not related to them. It was impossible to vet them since the “sponsors” were illegal themselves, and since the Department of Health and Human Services is not a law enforcement agency.
As a result, contractors received billions of dollars to process the children, and HHS officials used makeshift vetting, such as having sponsors text a picture of a foreign passport to them. But there was no way of knowing whether the sponsors were who they said they were, and no way to check foreign criminal records or the authenticity of documents with the governments of their home countries.
Biden&#8217;s immigration policies came under renewed scrutiny this week after an illegal immigrant granted a work visa by the Biden administration threw a Molotov cocktail at a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national and illegal alien, is believed to have entered the United States on a visa before he was granted work authorization by the Biden administration, which he overstayed after it expired in March, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weeks-before-illegal-alien-terror-attack-colorado-dems-passed-law-shielding-illegals-from-ice?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Weeks+Before+Illegal+Alien+Terror+Attack%2C+Colorado+Dems+Passed+Law+Shielding+Illegals+From+ICE">reported</a>.
Biden&#8217;s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said after children were delivered by contractors to &#8220;sponsors&#8221; — who government officials had typically never seen until the drop-off — the federal government was no longer responsible. Mayorkas also claimed that stopping the trafficking of children for labor was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayorkas-says-stopping-trafficking-of-alien-children-is-outside-the-responsibility-of-dhs">&#8220;outside the responsibility&#8221;</a> of DHS.
But Democrats, led by Kamala Harris, pushed to prevent HHS from sharing data with other federal and state government agencies, ostensibly to protect the privacy of the illegal immigrant adults and children. That meant that local school districts and state child welfare offices had no idea that the children existed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-kamalas-kids-in-cages-lie-paved-the-way-for-a-child-trafficking-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making it impossible</a> to ensure that they were attending school and not being trafficked for labor or sex.
Federal whistleblowers told Congress the scheme amounted to taxpayer-funded human trafficking, and the New York Times reported that one-third of the children could not be located 30 days after being placed with a “sponsor.”
Democrats said the solution was more money, obscuring the fact that HHS has no law enforcement powers and could not do anything to punish sponsors who would not say where the child was, even though an American whose child disappeared would go to jail.
In August, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general said the department did not know the location of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-made-no-effort-to-locate-missing-unaccompanied-alien-children-auditor-says-in-urgent-alert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">300,000 minors</a>, and “[w]ithout an ability to monitor the location and status of UCs, ICE has no assurance UCs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”
The inspector general mentioned a case similar to Lopez-Carillo&#8217;s, in which &#8220;[o]ne ICE officer expressed concern with not being able to take action in a case involving a UC whose sponsor claimed the UC was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband.” That same month, the Democratic National Committee made preserving the unaccompanied minor loophole a plank of its 2024 platform.
Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grassley-probe-hhs-contractors-lost-illegal-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescuing</a> the missing “unaccompanied alien children” is a priority.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guatemalan-traffickers-exploit-bidens-unaccompanied-alien-children-program-records-suggest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Guatemalan Traffickers Exploit Biden’s ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ Program</a>

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Teen Molested By Illegal Alien Who Biden Admin Sent Her To Live With, Police Say

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Homeland Security

Illegal Immigation

A man who exceeded the weight limit for a water slide at Walt Disney World is now suing the park, citing injuries he sustained during his visit to the amusement park.
Eugene Strickland filed the complaint on May 29, per <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/334-pound-man-sues-walt-disney-world-over-injuries-sustained-on-waterslide-that-allegedly-didnt-support-his-weight/">the New York Post</a>, and is seeking $50,000 in monetary damages.
The plaintiff claimed he suffered “catastrophic” injuries after riding the Downhill Double Dipper at Disney’s Blizzard Beach Waterpark in July 2021. It says he “became momentarily airborne&#8221; and hit “exhilarating speeds,” which caused “permanent catastrophic injuries as a result.”
He claims this caused his inner tube to come out from underneath him and made him “land with force onto the hard plastic surface of the slide.&#8221;
Strickland claims he weighed 334 pounds at the time of the incident, but the weight limit for the ride was 300 pounds. It’s not clear based on the lawsuit whether he was aware of the weight restrictions when he got onto the ride.
The Disney World website describes the attraction as “side-by-side high-speed slides.”
“A retractable starting gate is all that stands between you and victory. Anticipation builds as you and your opponent wait on inner tubes at the top of twin enclosed waterslides. Suddenly, the gates retract—and you’re off,” the ride description says. “Disappear into a black hole and plummet 50 feet downhill at exhilarating speeds. Hurtle through darkness, then emerge just in time for the big splashdown.”
The plaintiff claims to have “suffered serious bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering, disability, scarring, disfigurement, mental anguish, [and] loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life” that he still grapples with today.&#8221;
Strickland also claims Disney World is negligent for failing to establish safe premises, which resulted in his injuries.
In a <a href="https://people.com/man-suing-disney-world-over-alleged-water-slide-injury-11746095">statement</a> to People on behalf of Strickland, Morgan &amp; Morgan founder John Morgan and attorney Alberto Oliveri said, “Our client was severely injured on a ride at Disney’s Blizzard Beach. He has filed a lawsuit alleging that it was the defendant’s lax safety measures and oversight that contributed to those injuries. We are pursuing justice for him and working to hold Disney accountable for their alleged negligence.”
This isn’t the only water park-related lawsuit <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/26/us-news/long-island-mom-scarred-at-disney-by-mammoth-wave-lawsuit/">pending</a> against Walt Disney World. A Long Island mother is seeking $2 million for injuries she allegedly sustained from a “mammoth” wave at Typhoon Lagoon.

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Man Sues Disney For Water Slide Injury, Says He Exceeded Weight Limit And Hit ‘Exhilarating Speeds’

Man Sues Disney For Water Slide Injury, Says He Exceeded Weight Limit And Hit 'Exhilarating Speeds'

Courts

Disney World

Injury

Lawsuit

WASHINGTON—NPR announced last week that it’s suing the Trump administration over an executive order slashing its congressionally appropriated funding — a case that could have serious ramifications for the future of publicly-funded media.
But if Kat Cammack has her way, it won’t really matter.
The Florida congresswoman joined Senator Jim Banks to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1595/BILLS-119hr1595ih.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduce</a> the Defund NPR Act, which, if passed would codify Trump’s executive order, and ensure that “no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to” outlets like NPR and PBS. Taxpayers spend around <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ceo-implodes">$535 million</a> annually on NPR and PBS through federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Speaking to The Daily Wire this week, Cammack noted the absurdity of forcing taxpayers to fund public media outlets whose news content is “one giant editorial.”
“They&#8217;re not just biased — it&#8217;s effectively state-funded propaganda at this point, for the progressive left,” Cammack told The Daily Wire in a wide-ranging interview. “At the end of the day, taxpayers should not be funding propaganda, particularly one that has such an obvious political slant.”
Cammack’s bill is one part of the Republican Study Committee’s <a href="https://rsc-pfluger.house.gov/media/press-releases/republican-study-committee-launches-set-stone-initiative-cement-trumps-legacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Set In Stone Initiative</a>, an effort to “to transform President Trump&#8217;s executive victories into permanent legislation.” Three of Cammack’s fellow committee members — Reps. <a href="https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-introduces-defund-government-sponsored-propaganda-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudia Tenney</a> (NY), <a href="https://jackson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ronny Jackson</a> (TX), and <a href="https://strong.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-strong-introduces-bill-prohibit-federal-funding-biased-national" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dale Strong</a> (AL) have also introduced bills that would defund NPR and PBS.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-defunds-npr-and-pbs-no-media-outlet-has-a-constitutional-right-to-taxpayer-subsidies">defunded</a> NPR and PBS earlier this month, writing that &#8220;government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.&#8221; The president&#8217;s executive order followed the April release of a White House report <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/the-npr-pbs-grift-has-ripped-us-off-for-too-long/">cataloguing</a> the &#8220;radical, woke propaganda disguised as &#8216;news,'&#8221; that NPR and PBS produce.
The White House&#8217;s efforts to defund public media were turbocharged by NPR CEO Katherine Maher&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-classic-liberal-white-lady-moment-npr-ceo-mocked-for-old-tweets-how-white-of-me">disastrous testimony</a> at a March congressional hearing, during which lawmakers grilled her on past social media posts exposing the executive&#8217;s liberal bias.
Now, NPR is fighting back, claiming in its lawsuit that Trump’s executive order is tantamount to “the government [acting] with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment.” Cammack isn’t buying it.
“Spare me! You are the very same people who just said that the First Amendment is the largest impediment to censorship that they are trying to push. I mean, do they hear themselves?”
Cammack isn’t pulling punches — but that doesn’t mean she’s happy to see what’s become of American public broadcasting.
“I&#8217;m a millennial,” she says. “We grew up with Sesame Street, and it didn&#8217;t use to be this way where everything had a political slant.&#8221;
“It makes me sad,” Cammack adds. “You know, I&#8217;m seven months pregnant and I&#8217;m like, man, I&#8217;m gonna have to bust out old VHS tapes of Sesame Street or back when Sesame Street wasn&#8217;t so political.”
Ultimately though, it’s not so much the politics as the taxpayer-funded politics that irks Cammack. Taxpayer funding, she notes, “only accounts for such a small portion of [NPR and PBS’s] total overall budget, but that’s still too much, from a taxpayer standpoint.”
“They&#8217;re not gonna go straight off the air. And if they did, that would just be another ploy to try to gin up the public interest in this,” Cammack says.
“When we have $37 trillion in national debt, when Americans are struggling at the grocery store and the gas pump, we shouldn&#8217;t be on the hook” for public outlets that “want to push their continuous narrative and virtue signaling and make everyone feel like they&#8217;re a bunch of idiots.”
To Cammack, it all comes back to respecting and defending the taxpayers. Like any fiscal hawk worth their salt, she recoils at the notion that bureaucrats are held to different standards than the American people.
“I will always remember when I had to go get my first credit card,” Cammack says. “I was so religiously like, ‘I gotta pay this. I gotta pay it in full. I gotta do this.’”
Not so the federal government, who, Cammack notes, has “more credit cards and software licenses that are being used by government employees than there are government employees.”
“The math isn&#8217;t mathing!” she says.
“These are the unelected, nameless, faceless bureaucrats that basically run our government, like a shadow government,” she adds. “The scary part though, isn&#8217;t that that was happening. The scary part is that people are gonna fight us on cutting this out.”
People, perhaps — but not necessarily the American people. Even the most anti-Trump people she encounters in her district, she says, on some level admits “that there has just been rampant abuse across the board.”
“I still think at people&#8217;s core there&#8217;s a little bit of common sense,” she says. “I mean, the fact that you&#8217;re finding people on social security that are 167 — get me their nutritional plan!”
That core of common sense, she says, is why she has high hopes that the Department of Government Efficiency will continue to succeed long after Elon Musk’s departure.
“I think he has done a tremendous service to the country,” she says of Musk. “I mean, he really did it as a patriot.”
As a Special Government Employee, Musk was required to step down from his government perch after 130 days, which he did this week. Cammack has as high hopes for the Tesla founder as she does for DOGE after this federally-mandated parting of ways.
“He loves this country. But, let&#8217;s be real: the man wants to colonize Mars,” she says. “He started something. It&#8217;s now our job to finish it.”
It won’t be easy. Shortly before Cammack spoke to The Daily Wire, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that Trump’s “Liberation Day” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worlds-stock-markets-react-to-court-ruling-against-trumps-tariffs?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=19&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=World%E2%80%99s+Stock+Markets+React+To+Court+Ruling+Against+Trump%E2%80%99s+Tariffs">tariffs were illegal</a>. The White House and its congressional allies have a long battle ahead.
But Cammack is no stranger to a fight. Perched behind a laptop emblazoned with a Gadsden Flag, Cammack uses her time on the House floor to take Democrats to task — forcing Biden administration officials to confront the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmaker-confronts-biden-official-with-jar-of-wristbands-showing-grim-reality-at-border?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=GOP+Lawmaker+Confronts+Biden+Official+With+Jar+Of+Wristbands+Showing+%E2%80%98Grim%E2%80%99+Reality+At+Border">brutal reality</a> of human trafficking at the southern border, and introducing a bill to ban lawmakers from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-proposes-banning-foreign-flags-on-house-floor?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Republican+Proposes+Banning+Foreign+Flags+On+House+Floor">displaying foreign flags</a>, a rebuke of her Democratic colleagues waving Ukrainian flags to support foreign aid.
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Once you&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-rep-who-showed-baby-formula-stocked-at-border-for-illegals-calls-buttigieg-a-liar?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=GOP+Rep.+Who+Showed+Baby+Formula+Stocked+At+Border+For+Illegals+Calls+Buttigieg+A+Liar">called Pete Buttigieg a liar</a> on Face The Nation, calling out the federal judiciary is nothing.
“If we wanted judges to continually make all these decisions on behalf of the American people, we could just do away at that point with Congress and the presidency,” Cammack says, adding that the ability to levy tariffs is well within the president’s authority.
“The thing about judicial activism is it&#8217;s gotten more brazen over the years,” she adds. “And now you see it in full force.”
It’s serious stuff, and Cammack takes it seriously. But even she has to laugh at some of the reactions to Trump and his policies. Like the fact that Democrats and members of the media celebrating the tariff decision “never had anything to say when the Supreme Court ruled that Joe Biden couldn&#8217;t unilaterally forgive student loans.”
“This is what&#8217;s crazy to me: Joe Biden was spending money. Donald Trump is trying to save money. And so the courts are totally fine when you&#8217;re spending other people&#8217;s money.”
“But heaven forbid you get someone who&#8217;s actually trying to right the ship and save taxpayer money,” she laughs.
“Oh my gosh, the sky is falling!”
Shortly after the interview wrapped, a federal appeals court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/appeals-court-puts-trumps-sweeping-liberation-day-tariffs-back-in-place?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Appeals+Court+Puts+Trump%E2%80%99s+Sweeping+%E2%80%98Liberation+Day%E2%80%99+Tariffs+Back+In+Place">reinstated</a> Trump&#8217;s tariffs.

House GOP 3/11/25

Kat Cammack Isn’t Falling For NPR’s Crocodile Tears

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Elon Musk

Tariffs

The families of three Florida law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were presented the first-ever &#8220;Medals of Sacrifice&#8221; by President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday.
Trump handed out the medals to the loved ones of Cpl. Luis Paez, Jr., Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz, all former officers with the Palm Beach County, Florida, Sheriff&#8217;s Office. The officers were killed after they were struck by an SUV on November 21, 2024.
&#8220;Today, we also remember three remarkable heroes who will become the medal&#8217;s first-ever recipients. It&#8217;s a big honor,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;This was a terrible tragedy, shook the entire Palm Beach community like very, very few events I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; added Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago estate is in Palm Beach County. &#8220;All of Florida mourned their loss, and today, our entire nation joins in honoring these three incredible patriots taken from us. Much too soon, much, much too soon.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> announces three fallen Palm Beach County officers killed in the line of duty as the recipients of the first ever Medals of Sacrifice:
Cpl. Luis Paez, Jr. Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr. Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz.
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Paez, Waller, and Diaz were struck as they were on the side of the road attempting to start a broken-down patrol motorcycle following a traffic stop. The driver of the SUV attempted to pass a slower car but overcompensated and hit all three law enforcement officers on the side of the road. A fourth officer who was on his way to help his colleagues restart the motorcycle witnessed the fatal collision.
<a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Luis-Paez-2/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paez</a>, 58, had served in law enforcement for 36 years and was described as a &#8220;devoted family man.&#8221; Fifty-one-year-old <a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/ignacio-dan-diaz/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diaz</a> had served for 20 years and received several awards recognizing his work over that time. He is &#8220;remembered as a caring and devoted father, partner, and lover of animals.&#8221; <a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Ralph-Waller-2/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waller</a>, 54, had served for 18 years and was known for his &#8220;charm, wit, and an infectious smile.&#8221; The president told the officers&#8217; loved ones in the Oval Office that the country is &#8220;eternally grateful for their sacrifice.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll never forget their legacy, and we&#8217;ll never forget the debt we owe all of these great law enforcement heroes who have given their lives to keep our communities safe, and make America strong again,&#8221; the president added.

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For the first time in history, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats in Florida&#8217;s Miami-Dade County.
Florida’s Voice <a href="https://flvoicenews.com/historic-first-miami-dade-county-flips-red-as-democrats-sink-further/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported </a>464,370 Republicans and 440,790 Democrats are now registered to vote in Miami-Dade County, one of Florida&#8217;s blue strongholds, as of Monday morning. That means a whopping 59 of 67 counties in Florida are now red.
“Miami-Dade County has completed its off-year voter roll maintenance, and this morning, it shed 172,747 voters from its active rolls,” Michael Pruser, Decision Desk HQ’s director of data science, stated. “The change netted Republicans more than 38,000 voters compared to Democrats, and the county has now flipped to Republican by registration. Today marks Republicans’ first-ever lead in voter registration in Miami-Dade.”
Florida’s remarkable change from an evenly divided state to a red one is largely attributed to the success of Florida&#8217;s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. In 2021, a <a href="https://thecapitolist.com/desantis-posts-strong-approval-in-latest-florida-chamber-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> conducted by the Florida Chamber of Commerce showed that the 14.5 million registered voters in Florida were almost exactly split between Republicans and Democrats. According to the <a href="https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reportsxlsx/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Department of State</a>, there were 5,290,465 registered Democrats, 5,185,744 Republicans, 3,832,070 independents with no party affiliation (NPAs), and 247,108 voters affiliated with another party.
By November 2021, fully one year before the reelection of DeSantis, who had narrowly won the governorship in 2018, <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/11/04/no-million-dollar-checks-democratic-governors-may-sit-out-florida-1392319">POLITICO</a> reported that the Democratic Governors Association would not give any significant financial aid to any Democrat opposing DeSantis’ re-election in 2022, choosing to focus on races it thought Democrats could win. On October 31, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/10/31/florida-democrats-anxious-as-desantis-seems-unbeatable-1392147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a>, “Gov. Ron DeSantis appears unstoppable.” Indeed, he was, winning virtually 60% of the vote in November 2022 in a landslide.
President Donald Trump, who won the state narrowly in both 2016 and 2020, ran away with it in 2024, ultimately winning by double-digits. The Associated Press said it was comfortable calling the race when it saw that Trump was on track to win Miami-Dade County. Trump built on the success of DeSantis, who two years earlier became for first Republican to carry Miami-Dade in a statewide contest in two decades.
Last week, the Florida Department of State <a href="https://dos.fl.gov/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reports/voter-registration-by-party-affiliation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that there were now 5,578,457 registered GOP voters in Florida and 4,329,271 registered Democrats. That means that the GOP went from 50.5% of registered voters in 2021 to 56.3%, a massive 5.8 point shift in less than four years, with virtually all the time being during a Democratic presidential tenure.
In his tenure as governor, DeSantis has governed as a staunch conservative; he took massive heat for keeping the state open during the COVID pandemic, signed legislation requiring government employers and contractors to use E-Verify, terminated cooperation with a program to relocate illegal immigrants, advocated for more school choice, banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, banned China from buying land in the state, handled disasters such as Hurricanes Ian and Nicole with aplomb, for which he was widely praised, banned men from competing in women’s sports as far back as 2021, and introduced a $5,000 signing bonus for those wanting to be Florida police officers.

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