Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

   Being born in the era of staunch segregation, when Jim Crow reigned with impunity, I find myself sickened, disjointed, and angry at the country’s insidious and pervasive direction under leadership whose principles appear forged in anarchy, shameful incompetence, and overt, unmistakable racism. Much of this backlash was born from the election of America’s first Black president and intensified by the election of one of the most virulent, incompetent, and despicable facsimiles of a human being ever to occupy the Oval Office, even being chosen over a highly qualified and competent former attorney general and vice president simply because she is both female and minority.

What was expected to be a routine political gathering Monday night quickly transformed into a passionate and emotionally charged public reckoning over the future of Florida’s Congressional District 20 a historically Black congressional seat now standing at the center of a statewide political storm.

Recently Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Ranking Member Robert Garcia, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and members of the House Oversight Committee, alongside local leaders and immigration advocates, hosted a press conference in Orlando to announce the launch of new investigations and introduced the No Illegal Captivity and Extensions (NICE) Act, aimed at ending U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement’s (ICE) practice of holding detained immigrants indefinitely without charges.