DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 10, 2026--
As a Florida-based company through and through, Wire 3 prides itself on building up the communities they serve and call home. This winter, Wire 3 donated a combined $25,000 to local nonprofits, paired with a commitment to provide more than 100 families with a full year of free, 100% fiber internet service.
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Wire 3 presented Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida with a $10,000 donation, providing more than 40,000 meals to families across the region. Additionally, Wire 3 pledged one year of free 250 Mbps internet service to 100 Habitat for Humanity homes, alongside a $15,000 donation to support Habitat’s mission of building affordable housing throughout Southeast Volusia. Together, these efforts underscore Wire 3’s commitment to strengthening Florida communities and ensuring families have the connectivity they need for school, work, and simply everyday life.
“At Wire 3, we believe that connectivity is a cornerstone of opportunity,” said Jai Ramachandran, Wire 3 CEO. “As we partner with local organizations like these, Wire 3 is able to further serve families within our very own community by not only providing reliable internet, but by investing in organizations that make a real difference in meeting daily needs, from a roof over heads to well-balanced meals.”
Derrick Chubbs, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida President & CEO, shared, “We’re on a mission to provide nutritious food to our neighbors facing hunger, and with Wire 3’s generous donation, we can continue this vital work. Their support is a reminder that businesses of all sizes can uplift the communities they serve. We are grateful for Wire 3’s investment in Central Florida and for their commitment to a stronger future for our community.”
Mark Billings, Southeast Volusia Habitat for Humanity Executive Director, added, “Access to affordable housing is just the beginning. Once families move in, it’s essential that they become connected with high-quality services for their everyday lives, like internet. Our partnership with Wire 3 is a win-win for everyone, providing local families not just with a safe place to call home, but one that is also equipped with high-speed internet. Wire 3’s generous support ensures that the Habitat families we serve can stay connected and succeed.”
Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, the fiber optic company is powered by Floridians who are passionate about bringing communities high-speed service and giving back to the areas they serve.
As a fiber internet company, Wire 3 makes it easy for customers to experience cutting-edge connectivity with symmetrical speeds and flexible no-contract plans. As Wire 3 expands, the company continues to advance its mission of creating 10-Gig cities across Central Florida and the Space Coast. Interested customers can learn more about Wire 3’s offerings at wire3.com.
Learn more about Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida at feedhopenow.org, and Southeast Volusia County Habitat for Humanity at habitatsev.org.
About Wire 3:
Wire 3 is Florida’s Fiber based in Daytona Beach, Florida and providing 100% fiber internet. Founded in 2021, Wire 3 offers homes and businesses throughout its Florida service area symmetrical, multigigabit speeds. Focused on delivering a world-class customer experience, Wire 3 is powered by Floridians who are passionate about bringing communities the future of internet: fiber. For more information on Wire 3, please visit wire3.com.
Wire 3 Presents Donation to Southeast Volusia Habitat for Humanity
Wire 3 Presents Donation to Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress at 10 a.m. ET and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.
Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Rodney Scott, who leads Customs and Border Protection, and Joseph Edlow, who is the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, were called to appear Tuesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security amid falling public support for immigration enforcement.
Their agencies are flush with cash from Trump's big tax-and-spending law, but Democrats are threatening to shut down DHS Friday night if Republicans don't agree on new limits aimed at forcing agents to follow the law and the Constitution following killings in the streets and expanding detentions.
Trump’s immigration campaign has been heavily scrutinized in recent weeks after Homeland Security officers killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good. The agencies have also faced criticism for a wave of policies that critics say trample on the rights of both immigrants facing arrest and Americans protesting the enforcement actions.
ICE has undergone a massive hiring boom, deploying immigration officers across the country. Lyons is likely to face questioning over a memo he signed last year telling ICE officers that they didn’t need a judge’s warrant to forcibly enter a house to arrest a deportee, a memo that went against years of ICE practice and Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches.
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“Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government,” Rümeysa Öztürk said in a statement.
A judge said the Turkish graduate student raised serious concerns about her First Amendment and due process rights, as well as her health. The court found on Jan. 29 that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t proved Öztürk should be deported, and so terminated her removal proceedings, her attorneys told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.
The PhD student studying children and social media was arrested last March after co-authoring an op-ed criticizing her university’s response to the war in Gaza. She’s been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since May.
DHS can keep appealing, her lawyers noted. The agency didn’t immediately return an email message seeking comment.
Americans’ hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling. In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in 5 years, the lowest measure since Gallup began asking this question.
It’s a sign of the gloom that has fallen over the country over the past few years. In the data, Gallup’s “current” and “future” lines tend to move together — when Americans are feeling good about the present, they tend to feel optimistic about the future.
But the most recent measures show that while current life satisfaction has declined over the last decade, future optimism has dropped even more.
Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets — or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
Not in recent U.S. memory has an American policing operation so consistently masked its thousands of officers from the public, a development that the Department of Homeland Security believes is important to safeguard employees from online harassment. But experts warn masking serves another purpose, inciting fear in communities, and risks shattering norms, accountability and trust between the police and its citizenry.
Whether to ban the masks — or allow the masking to continue — has emerged as a central question in the debate in Congress over funding Homeland Security ahead of Friday’s midnight deadline, when it faces a partial agency shutdown.
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Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on President Trump’s immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement late Monday that a White House counterproposal to the list of demands they transmitted over the weekend “included neither details nor legislative text” and does not address “the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.” The White House proposal was not released publicly.
The Democrats’ statement comes as time is running short, with another partial government shutdown threatening to begin Saturday. Among the Democrats’ demands are a requirement for judicial warrants, better identification of DHS officers, new use-of-force standards and a stop to racial profiling. They say such changes are necessary after two protesters were fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis last month.
Earlier Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., had expressed optimism about the rare negotiations between Democrats and the White House, saying there was “forward progress.”
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People gather during a protest against immigration enforcement operations after Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, spoke at the border Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks at the border with Mexico Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
People gather for a memorial honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent, in Minneapolis, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, . (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
FILE - Federal agents walk down a street while conducting immigration enforcement operations, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)
