In this week’s edition of Facing South Florida:
CBS News Miami’s Jim DeFede sits down with Jeanette Nuñez for her first interview since becoming Interim President of Florida International University. The two discuss whether she is qualified to be a university president, her goals for the school, and why the state is going through the pretense of a national search when it’s common knowledge she’ll remain as president.
Plus, Jim asks her about the state’s decision to no longer allow undocumented students to quality for in-state tuition at FIU and other Florida schools. The in-state tuition program for undocumented students was her idea ten years ago.
And, there has been a major development in the aftermath of our CBS News Miami documentary ‘Warehoused: The Life and Death of Tristin Murphy’. The President of the Florida Senate is now pushing a bill to reform how mentally ill people are treated in the state’s criminal justice system. State Senator Jennifer Bradley introduced the bill this past week, which will offer treatment rather than prison for people with mental illness like Tristin.
Catch Facing South Florida With Jim DeFede Sunday at 11:30AM ET
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