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Founding Partner and Past FACDL President Jason Blank Quoted in Article About Florida’s Leading Agency for Immigration Arrests Not Using Body Cameras
Ana Goñi-Lessan Stephany Matat USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida August 11, 2025 Florida officers have arrested thousands of immigrants this year. It took 12 minutes before a Florida Highway Patrol officer checked Griselda Vazquez-Duran for injuries after bashing the driver’s window of her gray GMC with a baton. In March, the trooper had pulled… Read More »
Founding Partner and Past FACDL President Jason Blank Quoted in NPR Story About Judges See a Chilling Effect from Immigrants’ Arrests at Criminal Courthouses
August 8, 2025 By: Meg Anderson, NPR News As the Trump administration seeks to scale up deportations, ICE agents have been increasingly seen at immigration courts and criminal courthouses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges say they’re seeing a chilling effect on criminal proceedings, not only on the defendants but on witnesses and victims. AILSA… Read More »