You're watching Southwest Florida in focus.

Coming up, it's time to spring forward how you can prepare your brain and body for the added stress that comes with switching to daylight savings.

A first of its kind robot is laying the foundation for the future of construction.

Part of the reason I have left is you can only do so many jokes, which I've done about 28, which is what is the difference between a Democrat and Republican?

I've done it in 20 different ways.

Coming up with a new one is exhausting.

He is the king of the rant.

Comedy legend Lewis Black joins us before he visits southwest Florida for his final world tour.

Hello, I'm Sandra Victorova Thank you for joining us.

Property tax relief and less restrictive gun laws.

Those are just some of the priorities.

Governor Ron DeSantis is calling for during the 2025 state legislative session.

But at the very top of Desantis's state of the state address, which opened the session on Tuesday, Florida's crackdown on illegal immigration DeSantis touted the state's partnership with the federal government.

Sheriffs deputies in all of Florida, 67 counties are now allowed to act as Ice agents.

Now we are convening for the regular legislative session, having already enacted groundbreaking legislation to fulfill the historic mandate of delivering on President Donald Trump's mandate to end the illegal immigration crisis once and for all.

No state has done more, and no state did it sooner than we did in the free state of Florida.

Thanks to recent legislation, it's now a crime to enter Florida illegally.

The days of catch and release are over, and all state and local law enforcement agencies have a duty to insist in interior immigration enforcement efforts.

The voters have spoken and Florida has responded.

We will be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

This immigration crackdown has families who are violating immigration law worried.

One Southwest Florida couple says their fears of deportation are growing.

They left Mexico as teenagers trying to escape poverty.

They fell in love here and built a family here.

More than 15 years later, neither has legal status.

Their four young children do because of their birthright citizenship.

We're concealing their identities to protect their children's privacy.

The day we visited, the Cruz children had scored lots of sweets and treats from Valentine's Day.

Fun at school.

Sharing these joyful moments is difficult for parents John and Elizabeth, because the couple worries John could soon be arrested and deported.

Thing was a meal, brother.

I have a fear of going out and like I said to her, well, if I go to work one day, I don't know if I will come back.

John crossed the U.S. border at 18, hoping to help his financially struggling family and save enough to go to college.

Elizabeth cross the border at 17.

She cleaned banks.

He worked on golf courses.

Both say they didn't plan on staying.

Your ten year plan?

As I said, I had plans to return and to continue my studies.

But when we had our son and everything changed, we made the decision that if they were born here, well, they can study here and perhaps they can achieve something after that.

John has had his own success.

He has a pool screen business and has worked at the same homeowner's association for 16 years doing maintenance work.

Still, John is distraught about letting his son down, who is excited about middle school next year or as he took Booker.

Now I'm in a difficult situation.

I don't know if he's going to study here.

If I have to leave.

I don't know how it would go here.

He's going to have to leave the country.

It's a very sad story.

John's attorney, Ricardo Skerrit, says options have run out for his client under what he calls President Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy.

Under the previous administration, I think that he would have been granted a stay because of the fact that he has four American children.

John's desire to become compliant with the law is ultimately what might get him kicked out now.

John wanted a driver's license and work permit.

Skerrit says his client was unfairly persuaded to apply for political asylum, something few Mexicans qualify for.

That is the problem that most of these people, in order to get a driver's license, they file in asylum because they're induced into applying for a sandwich, so that that way they can get a work permit.

But the problem is that the asylum eventually becomes a removal order because most asylum cases are lost.

Skerritt explains to John that he must show up for a meeting with immigration soon.

While John doesn't have a criminal record, he is afraid to appear.

Skerrit understands why.

If you look at the statistics from the recent rates and the recent people that they have deported, most of them don't have any criminal record.

And all the previous administrations, they've always prioritized criminal aliens.

Fear of being stopped by police is why Elizabeth walks her children to school.

She is now slowly trying to explain the possibility of a new life in Mexico to her children, a future.

She and her husband worry about.

No tenemos una garza.

We don't even have a home.

If I tell them, it will be difficult for us to return.

We had always thought about our future.

But here I'm very sorry for my children.

Because it will be a tough change.

So what does this enhanced local law enforcement effort mean in the battle against illegal immigration statewide?

Joining me now is Doctor Pamela Seay an attorney and a professor and chair of justice studies at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Professor.

Welcome.

Well, thank you very much.

Glad to be here.

So I want to start with this news conference that sheriffs participated from counties across our state.

During that news conference, they said sheriffs deputies with special training will process immigration detainers issued by federal authorities to keep inmates in jail.

What does this mean?

How does this work?

Well, that's a big question.

And it's really not something new.

This is something that has been in place for quite some time.

It's only recently been reinstituted and by the current administration that for someone, a foreign national who has been arrested, if they are considered to be a danger, they've committed a crime against persons, or they're a drug crime or something that is a danger to the community, or they are otherwise removable under federal law, that there's a notification that is sent to Ice through the Department of Homeland Security.

And if that person would be considered removable, there is a detainer.

And that notification of a detainer goes to the law enforcement agency.

And once they are completed with whatever processing they ordinarily would do, they must keep that person for an additional 48 hours, notify Ice and Ice has that 48 hours within which to take custody of that person.

If Ice does not take custody of the person, then they will be released back into the public or they would otherwise be.

They would conclude their their, their service, whatever it is that they might need to do.

So as you mentioned, this is not new to the Trump administration.

Why are we seeing it enacted this time and why did it stop previously?

I don't know exactly why it was not enforced.

Concerns over racial profiling and concerns over and overzealous, law enforcement and concerns that we were might be going beyond the, the scope of of the rules.

And those are those are very valid concerns.

However, it seems that the pendulum has swung a little bit too far in the other direction so that many people who should probably have been deported or had some other kind of departure arranged were staying and being released back into the into the public, and they were a danger to the community.

Maybe they committed some, some horrible crime.

There's a drugs drug offense.

Kidnapings, attempted murders, things of that nature of aggravated assault, robberies, anything of that nature.

So instead of, going all one direction to say, let's everybody go back into the community, we've gone another direction and say, well, let's consider them and let's wait and do it in the 48 hour time frame.

And if they are considered removable under the rules, then they should be sent home.

Professor Casey, thank you so much for your time.

Well, I enjoyed being here.

Thank you so much.

reason it's kind of worked is as I'm playing in anger.

If I was really angry, all the time, I. I would be dead in a week.

His voice has become synonymous with political commentary.

After the break, we are joined by comedian Lewis Black to learn how he's preparing for the final Florida leg of his worldwide tour.

Whether it's part of his Back in Black segments on The Daily Show or as the voice of anger in Pixar's Inside Out, Lewis Black has become one of the most recognizable voices in comedy.

However, his world tour days are coming to an end, and on March 14th, he wraps up the Florida leg of his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour.

But before he hits the stage for another packed performance, we are thrilled that Lewis Black has decided to join us here.

We are so excited to have you.

Mr. black, how are you?

It's good.

I'm thrilled to be here.

I'm wherever I am, which is kind of in, I guess, the ether.

Well, I know a lot of your fans are excited.

You're going to be coming through Florida.

So how much do you prepare in, in in prepping on Florida politics, how closely do you follow what's happening in the Sunshine State?

I can barely follow what's happening anywhere at this point in time.

If I pick up the newspaper in the boarded up, it is hard enough for me to get past that, to even get to another state or to Florida or to any state.

So it's all lit up.

It's, you know, but I, I have material that, I've finished the road in, the I did some shows in December down in Florida.

And so some of the material will certainly hold up.

And so, because it hasn't changed in many ways and, you know, and you can apply what's happening now to, you know, what Florida has to deal with if we're really going to say, you know, cut, cut a bunch of employees and get rid of FEMA, you know?

Well, I really I wish you state the best.

A lot of folks, you know, I was we were talking to another comedian asking, you know, in these times when we're so politically divided, it made me think, gosh, the job for comedians has to be a lot tougher.

Is it?

Have you had to change how you deliver jokes or just.

Yeah, how you approach?

I just had a tendency to plow through and, you know, some people might get upset, but it's it's kind of silly to get upset.

I mean, the one thing I've said for quite a long time is I've been doing this, for 35 years, and I've had no effect on anything.

Okay.

I come to your town, I do the show, you wake up the next day, you go, wow, look at all the change here.

It hasn't happened.

Don't worry about it.

It's a joke.

You know what?

And when you finish, I think it's done.

It goes bye bye.

Doesn't come back to haunt you and it has no effect.

Well, you've had an effect on me.

I was just practically in tears watching your last special.

Tragically, I need you.

It has millions of views on YouTube.

So I was wondering, you know, how do you see social media?

Has it been a good thing for your career?

Being able to reach fans, naturally.

It's partly the end of my career because, I'm really the guy who comes out of the, you know.

You know, it's like, I come out of the what I call the industrial period of comedy.

We're in the technological period of comedy, which is what?

Which is which is social media, which is the phone.

I used to be the guy you interviewed in the newspaper, and, and and now with the social media, I kind of, I've kind of been, you know, it's it's it's just not.

It's just never worked for me.

I don't like kind of advertising myself.

I just like to talk.

I well, we can't wait.

And actually, I was telling you that this building here at WGCU is full of your fans.

They love watching your angry rants.

And I asked him, what did they want me to ask you?

And they said they want to know, are you like that all the time?

Where does the comedy and when do you, you know, is that how you are at home?

Only when I wake up, there's some things come over the TV or during the day.

I pick up a newspaper or, a magazine and look at a headline and go, are you kidding me?

I you know, the anger is always the anger has been there.

What I what I've learned to do and the reason it's kind of worked is, is I'm playing in anger.

If I was really angry, all the time, I. I would be dead in a week.

Okay.

And it was even for the beginning.

So it's, what I'm doing is I go up to the line where, you know, you don't want to be really angry in front of people because you didn't see it.

Kind of you more up.

And when I kind of crossed that line, I make sure people know that I know what's happening.

I know that I've crossed the line and I apologize.

Well, you know what?

You have made us all laugh.

So we thank you for what you do.

And of course, you can catch Lewis Black on his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour in Fort Myers.

He'll be at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on March 14th.

And thank you, Mr. Black, for joining us.

We appreciate it.

Well, thank you.

And, and thank everybody down there.

I appreciate it.

then I think.

Get your clocks ready to spring forward this Sunday as we make the shift to Daylight Savings Time.

While many Floridians look forward to a later sunset, a lot of folks struggle losing that hour of sleep.

The research shows that time change has a very real impact on our bodies and minds, and more than just for a day or so to help us understand that impact and how we can better adjust.

As Doctor Michael Jaffe, the director of the University of Florida's Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Neuroscience Center.

Doctor Jaffe, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you for having me.

So a lot of us think it's just an hour, right?

Just an hour.

How?

You know.

Why do we often feel like it really impacts us?

And more than for just a day or two?

It's a great question.

And people ask us every year, and I think it's important to understand kind of where we're at before we go into this daylight savings time and the effects that sleep has on the entire aspects of our body.

And so where we're at is that at our any given time, looking at a variety of information and data at 40% of Americans are not getting enough sleep to start with.

And that's before you lose this one hour of sleep.

And so you're kind of piling on for those individuals.

And so what really important is sleep.

While most of us feel that we're fatigued or sleepy or not performing as well if we're not getting enough sleep.

But the important thing to realize is that it really has impacts and effects on almost every system of your body.

And that can have some interesting and important consequences for us to be aware of.

And so one of the things that we talk about is that for people who are not getting enough sleep, they are at risk for more easily developing high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, depression that affects your immune system, making you more prone to catch infections.

So you can think about this.

It's really affecting everything across the board.

And in fact, when you think about some of the stresses that that might have on your body, increasing inflammation, then it turns out that the for the days following the daylight savings time, when we lose an hour of sleep, there's actually been a number of studies that have reported an increase in and heart conditions and heart attacks and happening, and that has to do with activation of that autonomic fight or flight system that we have just from the stress and strain of kind of dealing with that additional having the power through that sort of sleep deprivation.

So knowing that we're all going to be dealing with this time change, is it just a simple matter of go to bed a little earlier?

So it's actually kind of where you have to kind of work it to get the maximal protection days, days in advance, trying to kind of shift your clock to kind of go to that 10 to 15 minutes earlier.

Do that for a couple of days and then shift another 10 to 15 minutes earlier.

And so if you can kind of do that, that kind of mitigates kind of that stress of having to deal with that.

All that one hour all at once.

When you do kind of face that daylight savings time day and trying to kind of be, rest up during those that that week before as well.

So anything you can do to do that and then what I always advise people is, just as we talked about with these social events, trying not to schedule anything that requires, intensive work on your part.

On a couple of days following that daylight savings time when you lose an hour.

And finally, how long does this impact us?

Some of this data looks like it can last for at least four days, and some people would say up to a full week to kind of make that adjustment for people.

Now, if you're talking about people who are already at the cusp, who are already kind of not getting enough sleep, that is enough to tip them over to have some of these acute events.

We know that motor vehicle accidents are higher on those several days following daylight savings time, just from the sleep deprivation or decreased attentiveness people have driving from that.

And so this is really something that we see the most acute effects for a couple of days.

But for some people it can last up to a week.

You think about some people who are more vulnerable and can have more, more, longer effects.

Sometimes it takes children longer to adapt, and perhaps it might take some older individuals a little bit longer to adapt.

And if I can end on this, just general advice on getting a better night's sleep.

We've all heard, you know, put your phones away or your, tablets.

Don't look at it or TV right before bed.

Any other advice or common mistakes that you see people make that they shouldn't change?

I think you hit on a big one in the modern era.

So the typical sleep advice has to do with a cool environment.

Trying to keep a regular routine at night, trying to do things that are kind of more relaxing or winding down.

And so some of the aspects about not, doing stimulating activities in your bedroom or bed, trying to use that in other parts of the house.

If you are having trouble falling asleep in your bed, a lot of experts would advise to just get out of bed.

Go sit in a dark place, not doing anything for about 20 minutes until you're drowsy and then get back into bed trying to kind of break the association of not sleeping while you're in the bed.

So a lot of these things really have to do with habits and have to do with routine.

And so trying to keep the same schedule, as you can.

Doctor Jaffe, thank you so much, Doctor Jaffe with the University of Florida.

Thank you.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but now your next home could be coming up.

A new multi-million dollar robotic project is put to the test to build a house like we've never seen before.

Imagine a home being constructed in 8 to 10 hours, walls up with zero waste.

The Australian inventors of the world's first mobile robotic block Lang machine, say that is now a reality.

As WGCUs Jennifer Crawford reports, the robots first homes in the US debut right here in Lee County, and Babcock Ranch.

Meet Hadrian X, a bricklaying robot from the land Down Under breaking new ground in the United States.

Building this home in Babcock Ranch in about 12 hours.

What we're looking at here is the world's first, fully automated end to end delivery robotic solution for, Mason in the US.

The Hadrian X, more than 20 years in the making, invented by Fast Brick Robotics in Australia, could revolutionize the building process by essentially using a 3D printer loaded onto a truck.

We're the only ones who, building a house with a 3D printer that uses traditional CMU blocks.

Fast Brick robotics generates a 3D model of a home, feeds the data into Hadrian X and the machine, then prints the structure.

You're essentially taking a piece of block and laying it into a, section of the ER, that has been, mapped out, electronically.

There's shuttles operating inside the machine as well.

There's 21 inside this machine here.

They're being fed block inside here, and they'll run themselves down a track as they produce the block to the handler here.

They flip upside down and they run themselves underneath back into place to collect the next block.

The machine applies polyurethane adhesive on the bottom of the block and then gets placed into the building.

So.

At the moment we're running anywhere from, say, 280 to 320 blocks per hour.

And in comparison to, say, a good Mason or a good, block layer, and here in the US, they're lying 250 to 300 a day.

Dan McGrail says that means walls can be erected in a single family home in about one day, with 2 or 3 workers, compared to a day and a half to four days.

Using traditional masonry crews of 8 to 12 people.

We've precut everything before we actually get to the site, and the machine knows exactly where everything's placed in the build, which allows us to to preplan effectively and allows us to build a house with zero waste moving forward.

Fast Brick Robotics partnered with Pulte Homes to demonstrate the Hadrian X, constructing the walls of the robot's third home being built in Babcock Ranch.

Crowds of industry professionals, neighbors and students gathering to watch.

I've never seen anything like this.

Teacher Rico Marino chaperoned about 60 Babcock Ranch high schoolers to witness history being made.

See if you would have told me when I started 20 years ago that I'd be on a field trip watching a robot build a house.

I thought you were crazy.

These are what my students are growing up with.

So we've got to change with the times.

Freshman Chance Burgess learned 3D printing a class.

Seeing that technology used to construct a home inspires him.

I do take this as something I could be doing.

I am definitely on the bigger side of building.

And this is what it build and take away from more of like the manual labor and just let everything do itself is really awesome to see.

So I believe this will definitely be something I can do.

McGill says they believe the Hadrian X addresses construction industry issues worldwide by offering a more precise and efficient build, less waste and cost, and filling a shortage of human workers.

Reporting for GCU news.

I'm Jennifer Crawford.

Hadrian X built its first home in the United States in Lehigh Acres in August of 2024.

Now, the robotic technology has built ten homes in the US, all in southwest Florida.

Well, coming up next week.

Was that really a UFO in the sky, or was Bigfoot really going for a walk in the woods?

We take a dive into the world of pseudoscience to see how these myths strike up the imagination.

Join us for that story and much more next week, and be sure to like and subscribe to the WGCU news YouTube channel, where you'll find all of our stories, including extended interviews and much more.

Have a great weekend and make sure to move those clocks forward.