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Leaving an entire life behind, assimilating to a foreign education system and watching parents sacrifice life savings are all things students on F-1 visas knowingly sign up for. The reward? Freedom of speech, superior academics and — for many — political stability.
During a time of political uncertainty, international students find themselves at the crossroads of legislative changes.
The UF Data Center seemed unexceptional, ordinary in every sense of the word — at least from the outside. Clad in red brick, it was wedged into the interior of a near-empty parking lot where Erik Deumens, UF Information Technology Research Computing senior director, stood patiently.
En medio de un momento de incertidumbre política, los estudiantes internacionales se encuentran en la encrucijada de cambios legislativos.
More than 90 people gathered in Turlington Plaza at noon on Wednesday to protest the deportation of Colombian UF student Felipe Zapata Velasquez and advocate for the inclusion of an immigration attorney within the scope of Student Legal Services.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Janet Acosta was a Miami Herald employee, not a reporter.
Felipe Zapata Velásquez, a 27-year-old food and resource economics third-year international student, is currently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Temperaturas bajo cero, ropa sucia y escasa atención médica son algunas de las realidades diarias reportadas por los detenidos dentro del Centro de Detención del Condado de Baker.
Freezing temperatures, soiled clothing and scarce medical attention are among the daily realities reported by detainees inside the Baker County Detention Center.
In her home nestled on Southeast 23rd Lane, Conjwanna Robinson had a family and three decades of history — but the Florence Landfill was enough to make her want to pack up her life and leave. She wasn’t alone.
UFPD officers arrested a student during a history lecture Wednesday, pulling him from a class at Keene-Flint Hall in connection with a string of TV thefts from campus buildings and student apartment complexes.
Los adultos jóvenes suelen caer en errores. Algunos retiran una materia, otros son arrestados por posesión de marihuana o el uso de identificaciones falsas. Para estos últimos, el ex fiscal estatal y senador de Florida Rod Smith introdujo una solución a principios de la década de 1990 que aún sigue vigente: los acuerdos de enjuiciamiento diferido (DPA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Young adults tend to fumble. Some drop a class; some get busted for marijuana or fake IDs. For the latter, former State Attorney and Florida Sen. Rod Smith introduced a still-thriving solution in the early 1990s: deferred prosecution agreements, or DPAs.
A gaggle of teenage boys stampeded through the woods in 1984. It was just beyond 15-year-old Johnell Gainey’s new home in Southeast Gainesville — a paradise for childhood imagination, for slingshots and BB guns and exploring in the summer heat.
Cantar música soul nunca ha sido negocio para el cantante Little Jake Mitchell; para él, se trata de hacer a la gente feliz. Incluso ahora, a sus 80 años y con medio siglo de carrera, su banda, “Little Jake and the Soul Searchers”, sigue encontrando inspiración en la histórica escena de "R&B" de Gainesville para innovar su música.
Andrés, un inmigrante venezolano de 60 años con 30 años de experiencia en ingeniería mecánica, trabaja 60 horas a la semana como conductor de Lyft y repartidor de DoorDash.
Andres, a 60-year-old immigrant from Venezuela with a 30-year background in mechanical engineering, works 60 hours a week as a Lyft and DoorDash driver.
This story originally stated that each member of the settlement was given financial compensation to pay for water filtration. It was updated to reflect that only some members have received such compensation.
When Jade Floyd moved into her Alachua home five years ago, she expected a peaceful neighborhood in a quaint, quiet town.
White streaks cleaved the Gainesville sky as planes passed overhead. It was a common sight, and the city carried on — except for those who believed those linear trails were the mark of conspiracy.
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