On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, former Miami city manager Emilio Gonzalez, Zoo Miami communications director Ron Magill and developer Paul Lambert.

There has been a call to resign – and one already has – to the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT who suggested that calls for genocide, specifically genocide of Jewish people, may be acceptable in some contexts.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, insurance expert Lisa Miller, and Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers participated in a discussion about the situation in Cuba on Monday at the Bay of Pigs Museum & Library in Miami’s Little Havana.

South Florida members of the Congress have always been among the most involved in crafting immigration reform, though for decades, compromise has been elusive.

On the eve of Election Day, candidates are making their final pushes to get voters to the polls.

President Biden took action Wednesday to ease the pain at the pump announcing the release of 15 million barrels of crude oil from the nation’s emergency stockpile to help drop gas prices just three weeks away from mid-term elections.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg are joined by State Sen. Shevrin Jones, State Rep. Chip LaMarca, Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres and chair of Miami-Dade County’s Independent Civilian Panel Loreal Arscott.

Young South Floridians are sounding off after the major Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney are joined by Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, Mayte Canino of Planned Parenthood, Parkland parent and activist Tony Montalto and Miami politician David Rivera.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney are joined by Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, Mayte Canino of Planned Parenthood, Parkland parent and activist Tony Montalto and Miami politician David Rivera.

Last week brought historic change involving guns and abortion.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The detention center for undocumented unaccompanied migrant minors in Homestead remains closed and a few protesters who want it to stay that way were standing outside on Monday. One said she was horrified when Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat, asked President Joe Biden’s administration to reopen the facility to house the migrant children. What may complicate the decision for the Biden administration: Then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris visited the site in June 2019, and she criticized the use of private detention facilities. “HHS has not had the capacity to intake the number of unaccompanied children we have been encountering.”HHS is supposed to hold the child for coronavirus testing, shelter, and placing with a sponsor. In the past administration and in the present administration, until we solve the problem at the border,” Salazar said.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The Immigration Partnership & Coalition Fund, a Miami-Dade-based organization that advocates for undocumented immigrants’ rights through bipartisan action, hosted a virtual summit on Thursday. “We have a bipartisan tradition of supporting immigration initiatives to give people a chance to live a life of dignity and a life of purpose,” Bush said. Diaz-Balart said that in order to reform the immigration system everyone had to be willing to accept not getting “every single thing that we want” and support a bipartisan legislative proposal. “For the sake of our food supply and our healthcare system and overall quality of life, we must bring our immigration system into the 21st century,” Lazaro said. AdSenators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio oppose Biden’s immigration bill.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Photos tell the story of why a popular spot in South Florida reopened on Friday but, by Sunday it closed. Mostly maskless people packed in at The Wharf at 20 West Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale for its reopening. pic.twitter.com/8fUvfOoQ5N — The Wharf Fort Lauderdale (@wharfftl) November 22, 2020“We will reopen when we are able to provide the proper experience for you at our beautiful outdoor venue. Stay safe and stay tuned.”Nightlife in Fort Lauderdale has been heavily scrutinized during the pandemic. On Fort Lauderdale Beach this weekend, the annual air show drew crowds and while signs posted said masks were required some people didn’t follow the direction.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. Congressman Mario Diaz Balart usually supports President Trump on most issues, but split with him this week on delaying the 2020 election. South Florida's long republican congressman had a lot of his plate this week, including a roundtable with Vice President Mike Pence. The first Phase 3 clinical trials started for a COVID-19 vaccine in Miami this week. The full video can be found at the top of this page.

Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON - A bill that seeks to protect thousands of Venezuelans currently living in the United States from deportation by granting them Temporary Protected Status failed Tuesday in the House of Representatives. Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, R-Florida, a co-sponsor, said he and others will seek a new vote in regular order to pass the bill. "Granting Venezuelans TPS is one of the most bipartisan immigration acts each of us as member of Congress can take right now," said the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat. The Congressional Budget Office estimates 200,000 Venezuelans currently living in the United States could receive TPS. President Donald Trump said in June his administration was considering granting TPS to thousands of Venezuelans who have fled to the U.S. amid ongoing unrest.