freelance journalist covering FL @washingtonpost. formerly @miaminewtimes. alex.deluca@washpost.com/alexdeluca.11 on Signal
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Some news! I’ll be covering Florida as a freelancer for @washingtonpost over the next couple of months.
Send tips to alex.deluca@washpost.com, or DM me for Signal.
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Emmanuella is one of the thousands of Haitians who were living and working in the U.S. legally when Trump revoked their TPS. She left her job, desperately tried to find a husband, and began to disappear. The quiet unraveling of a Haitian life in America: newyorker.com/news/our-local…
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Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ...
Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?"
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Shortly after JD Vance told an audience in Florida that @AngieNixon should "get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America," I sat down with Nixon to get her response. See attached video. @CBSMiami
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“The Venice Police Department in Venice, Fla., tallied one federal immigration detention in September 2025 and has since requested a total of $895,000.”
Read this story by @brenna__smith @marianne_levine @jackgillum: wsj.com/us-news/immigration-…
DHS has been paying local agencies as much as $2 million per arrest in a nationwide immigration task force.
The result? A cash cow for local cops — and few arrests for ICE.
My latest w/ @marianne_levine & @jackgillum
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On today’s front page:
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there.
No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery.
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I visited @cornellsun students at their office last night — and talked with them about the campus rape case they've been investigating for 23 months, and the decision to publish the names of the seven men involved in the lawsuit on their front page. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyreg…
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New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there.
No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery.
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BREAKING: Tennessee governor puts a halt on executions after inmate Christa Gail Pike survives a lethal injection attempt. apnews.com/article/christa-p…
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Phenomenal reporting + a heartbreaking story by @itscaitlinhd about the children who remain behind when their parents are deported theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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ICE's own mortality review finds in the death of Johnny Noviello, a canadian national, on May 15, 2025 at Krome Service Processing Center, that his care "deviated beyond safe limits of practice," apparently from start to finish. Specifically:
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New: She was a foot soldier for Nick Fuentes. Then his movement turned on her.
Inspired by tradwives, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of his model “groypettes.” A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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The Jacksonville man’s case is among a string of wrongful arrests linked to faulty use of facial recognition and a lack of investigative rigor.
Nick was ordered to live separately from his children, the youngest was 7-months-old.
✍️: @hellokatepayne
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When the Weed Wars Came to Warren Street nytimes.com/interactive/2026… via @NYTimes
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What happens if you’re deported to a country that says you don’t exist?
Many Nicaraguans seeking political asylum in the US are stateless, making an uncertain situation even more dire.
My last story for @MiamiHerald
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Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency over a growing dengue outbreak.
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NEW: Thousands of Floridians worked in a plant building nuclear weapons parts during the Cold War, handling plutonium. Many have cancer. The federal gov't promised help with medical bills.
30 years later, they're still fighting the bureaucracy to get it. tampabay.com/news/environmen…
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Lawsuit filed: We are suing the U.S. government to demand the return of data taken from my phone after detaining me for over two hours at Miami International Airport.
I was just detained for almost two hours at Miami International Airport coming back from an overseas trip. I was interrogated, asked about my work, political activities, books and literature I had, and my phone was seized.
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Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested.
The Indiana cops were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronjschaffer, @dmac1 and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away?
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So far this year, lightning activity across Florida has been 28 percent above the 10-year average, said safety specialist Chris Vagasky.
Florida averages more than 3,200 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes each day, according to Vaisala data from 2009 to 2018. wapo.st/4ybRi5K
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