Joe Biden

Migrants are arriving in the U.S. under the Biden administration’s new “safe mobility offices,” set up in Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador. The idea is to streamline the U.S. refugee process so migrants don’t give up and pay smugglers to make the journey north.

Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez takes shots at Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis while discussing jobs, immigration and the billions of dollars for infrastructure projects made available statewide.

Suburbs in South Florida that have swung toward Donald Trump are where the Obamacare health care program is more popular than anywhere else in the country

Only 30% of those Hispanic voters surveyed statewide said they would “definitely” or would “probably” vote next November for Biden compared to 36% for Trump. It was the lowest percentage of support for Biden among eight states surveyed by UnidosUS/Mi Familia Vota

On the Florida Roundup, we look at the impact of President Biden's humanitarian parole for migrants, one year later. Throughout the hour, we explored the WLRN News’ series “Waiting for America” with some of the reporters who contributed to it.

The year Biden said 2022 produced the third-highest annual disaster costs since recordkeeping began in 1980, which aligns with official federal government statistics. However, that figure excludes smaller weather events.

Error-ridden state reviews have purged millions of the poorest Americans from the Medicaid program in recent months. Poverty experts are questioning if the Biden administration is doing enough to stop states from wrongly removing people from the government health care program.

The parole program allows 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the U.S., remain for two years and secure a work permit.

Venezuelans were the first to receive Biden's humanitarian parole — and while some call it a "miracle" ticket out of their crisis, others say they've grown impatient waiting for it.

“This decision is a blatant betrayal of the very principles that United States claims to uphold — justice, compassion, and human rights,” said Krizia López Arce, a spokesperson for the Miami−based group, in a statement Friday. The coalition represents more than 50 statewide groups supporting immigrants.

The point isn’t that Donald Trump managed drug shortages badly as president or that Joe Biden is handling them badly now, experts said. Many factors contribute to the problem.

Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show that Hispanic or Latino unemployment was 9.3% in December 2020, President Donald Trump’s last full month in office. That rate fell from 8.5% in January 2021, the month Joe Biden was sworn in, to 4.9% in August 2023.