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With temperatures in the 90s displaced Puerto Rican families and their advocates continued to protest in the makeshift tent city for a third day. They are calling for emergency funding as FEMA’s temporary shelter assistance ends tomorrow.

More than 600 Puerto Rican families remain in Florida hotels and motels under FEMA’s Transitional Housing Program. Attorney and advocate Kira Moreno-Craft says with the program ending June 30th both the state and federal governments needs to step up with more affordable long-term housing solutions.

Following an outcry over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy that’s separated children from their parents at the Southern US border, President Trump signed an executive order that he says ends family separation. We're joined by Orlando Immigration attorney John Gihon to discuss what this means for undocumented immigrants including children in detention.

Governor Rick Scott says he doesn’t agree with the children being separated from their families at the border in a letter sent to the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday.

Children are being separated from their families at the border and put in detention centers since a zero-tolerance immigration policy took effect in April. Sen. Bill Nelson filed legislation to end the separation of children and families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A rally and march this afternoon in downtown Orlando will call for an end to an immigration policy separating children from their families. Children have been housed at detention centers for months at a time.