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Florida Sheriffs can now enforce immigration laws by ice


The agreement enables the local law enforcement authorities to enforce violations of immigration as part of their routine police tasks.

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  • Florida will participate in all counties on 287 (g) Task Force Model and the Officer Officer Officer Officer Officer, the officials announced at a press conference.
  • This means this: The local law enforcement authorities can now identify and arrest immigrants who have illegally entered the country.
  • The new agreement is part of the efforts of the state to support President Donald Trump and his mandate for mass deportation from immigrants without papers.

All 67 Sheriff's Offices in Florida can now be carried out with the US immigration and customs authority through the enforcement processes at the street level.

At a press conference in a hangar in the homestead Air Force Base on Wednesday evening, the officials announced that Florida would enter all of his counties in a so -called 287 (g) model contract and a program for the Warrant Service Officer.

The agreement enables the local law enforcement authorities to enforce violations of immigration as part of their routine tasks, and enables ice to be trained, certified and approved the local law enforcement authorities to serve and execute administrative commands in their prisons.

“If you have the will, determination and attention, find them, sort it, take it firmly and deport them. Totally relentless, no BS, straight ahead. You hear that President Trump says it every day: “Mass deportation,” said Larry Keefe, executive director of the New State Board of Immigration Enforcement.

The Agreement of 287 (G) is part of the efforts of the state, President Donald Trump and his mandate for mass shifts to combat illegal immigration.

There are three types of 287 (g) agreements that enable the local law enforcement authorities to work with ICE: the model of the prison, the model of the Task Force model and the program of the Warrant Service Officer.

All counties in Florida are also enrolled in the prison enforcement model, with which the removal of an immigrant who has illegally joined the country and is located in a district prison and begins.

“We are ready to roll,” said Wayne Ivey, Sheriff of Brevard County. “These new tools, these new resources that you gave us through this newly adopted state law, give us exactly what we need to be a power multiplier for our federal partners.”

“If someone in the state of Florida, who is illegally here in our country, we gave this new law the opportunity to fold it into account and accept it, and we appreciate it,” he added.

Florida that increase the efforts to track down illegal immigrants

Since the governor signed the new immigration legislation, Florida has to track down his efforts to find immigrants who have illegally entered the country, especially in rural Gadsden County, about 20 miles from Florida's capital.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which monitors the Florida Highway Patrol, has its efforts to work with ICE agents and publish photos of traffic stops and arrests on social media.

Keith Pearson, formerly Sheriff of St. Lucie County and now Senior Counselor of the US Ministry of Homeland Protection for state and local law enforcement authorities, said the program would enable local law enforcement authorities to identify “criminal illegal foreigners” and “foreigners with serious criminal rulers”.

But Desantis said again that he believes that every immigrant who has illegally entered the country is “imposed on the community, regardless of whether additional crimes are committed”.

“The thing is that taxpayers pay health care if something happens. Taxpayers pay education when they send their children to school because the Supreme Court says they have to do it, ”said Desantis.

Desantis also said that he would support a law that would require all companies in Florida E-Verify.

While Desantis mentioned a household preservation in his comments, the democratic chairman of the Senate Jason Pizzo from North Miami was the first to submit this type of law for the regular legislative session of 2025. Pizzo is a possible democratic candidate for the governor in 2026.

Pizzos Bill (SB 782) has the co-sponsors of the non-partisan co-sponsors-senses. Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, and Joe Gruders, R-Sarasota, the sponsor of the new Immigration Act, which was adopted during the special session.

The legislation would require that all private employers, regardless of how many work for them, use the e-verify system to check the authorization of a new employee.

“If you are illegal here, you only know that the law is the law,” said Desantis.

Ana Goñi-Lessan, state watchdog reporter for the USA Today Network-Florida, can be reached at agonilessan@gannett.com.