ICE agents in Florida have made more immigration arrests so far this year than counterparts in any other part of the country, outpacing even places with announced “surges,” new data shows.
The Miami Field Office for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Office is credited with about 120 arrests per day in 2026 or 9,880 total as of March 10.
The Florida arrest data reflects the efforts of Gov. Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump’s closest ally in his mass deportation agenda. DeSantis last year opened Alligator Alcatraz, a horrifying immigration detention center in the Everglades swamp.
Minnesota, where a so-called surge left two U.S. citizens dead, still trailed Florida. The St. Paul field office had made 5,530 arrests as of March 10, about 4,300 fewer than the Miami office.
Florida carried out 19 executions in 2025, surpassing Texas, Alabama and South Carolina combined, and more than doubling the state’s previous record. The unprecedented pace is drawing sharp reactions.
Each execution costs an estimated $24 million.
Florida also leads the nation in death row exonerations. This means 30 people sentenced to death in Florida have since been cleared, found innocent and freed.
“That’s an alarming number to me. Thirty is a lot. That’s 30 innocent people who were either sentenced to be executed or sentenced to death who should not have been?”
How many innocent people have been executed in Florida?
Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for children to attend schools, said state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a prominent immunization critic.
The move would make Florida the first-ever state in the U.S. to withdraw from requirements credited with increasing vaccination rates in communities and preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases.
The rollback could result in fewer school children getting immunized against deadly viruses such as polio and measles.
The most targeted book in Florida last year was the classic “A Clockwork Orange,” which was removed at least 14 times. Also in the top 10 was “Wicked,” which inspired the famous musical and the popular fantasy romance, “A Court of Mist and Fury.”
During the 2023-24 school year, Florida had more than 4,500 instances of book removals, according to PEN America. The year prior, it had more than 1,400. The current numbers being less than the year before aren’t comforting to Baêta. She says, for example, if books with LGBTQ+ themes are removed one year, they’re not getting replaced with other books with LGBTQ+ themes the next.
Advocates against the removals warn that books with LGBTQ+ or racial topics are being disproportionally targeted.
But the weather is pretty good, most of the time.
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