The Sheriffs of Florida will work with ice to enforce immigration

Florida moves quickly to tighten the cooperation between the local law enforcement and immigration officers in order to carry out the deportation efforts of the Trump government.

All 67 counties of the state have signed a 287 (g) contract, a federal contract that enables states and local law enforcement authorities to carry out certain tasks for the immigration and customs authority (ICE).

The Florida Sheriff's Association announced the milestone during a press conference on Monday.

The step is part of the efforts to comply with a comprehensive immigration law that was adopted during a special meeting of the legislature in Florida.

“It is Florida Sheriff's Association that leads the way for the state of Florida, but we are also the way for the United States,” said Sheriff Grady Judd, the sheriff of Polk County, who had joined the newly created state immigration council.

Some of the state agencies and counties in Florida are also part of some of the first to register for a newly added Task Force model of the 287 (G) program, which would expand local and state officials outside the district.

A similar model for enforcing the road was discontinued in 2012 after investigations by the Ministry of Justice found cases of racial profiles. The remaining two models as part of the program have approved local and state civil servants in order to only detain and question suspects in district prisons or prison statements.

According to Bob Gualtieri, Sheriff of Pinellas County, the training period for civil servants as part of the program was also shortened, which was also appointed in the state immigration officers.

The prison enforcement model called for the officials to be a four-week training session, in which they learn how to ask, as was questioned non-citizens to determine their immigration status within the prison and then output the ICE prisoners.

This is compressed in five days.

The Warrant Service Officer model is more common and trains law enforcement to meet inquiries from prisoners, not for the suspects. In the past, this required eight hours of training – but now only four.

“The training in the past was quite extensive,” said Gualtieri, “but now everything is rationalized and we can do it.”

The goal is to train the officials within the next 15 to 30 days, said Gualtieri.

The sheriff of Charlotte County, Bill Prummell, said during the press conference that they would “work on the future training for the new Task Force model, which” would expand some of the ICE powers on the street if we were our normal Perform tasks. “

So far, state authorities, including the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Ministry of Criminal Service Authorities and the Fish and Wildlife Protection Commission, have signed this model.

St. Lucie County is also on the list of ICE agencies.

In the meantime, the counties Collier and Lee, together with the Agricultural Department of Florida and the State Guard, have pending applications for the Task Force model.

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Judd pushed back against the idea that an extended 287 (G) program would lead to racial profiles.

“This is BS, it's totally BS, it's left, crazy conversation,” said Judd. “We do what is right and we follow the law, and if you are illegal here, we will start your butt from this country.”

Judd said one of the top topics for the federal immigration officer was the limited bed in the cycles and said that there are around 2,000 beds in Florida and around 40,000 across the country.

For this reason, immigration officers would have to prioritize those who are illegal in the country and are threats to public security or have been removed beforehand and return to the USA without permission.

“When you work here, you have your children at school, you pay your taxes, you are not a priority,” said Judd, “it's the criminals.”

Gualtieri said that there are “space for discussions” for those who do not commit crimes.

“There are some people out there … who are illegally committed to some people in our country because the federal immigration policy failed,” he said.

“In some cases, these are people who have been here for years, albeit illegally who have been involved in our communities and even pay taxes and in some cases there are no crimes. And there is space for discussion about discussion about discussion The.”

But Kara Gross, legislative director and Senior Policy Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, told The News Service of Florida that the law was “excessively wide and vague” and that “leads to a rampant racial profile of people that are perceived that are perceived immigrants.

“This law and rhetoric that surrounds it and companies that they often visit,” said Gross.

In 2011 and 2012, the DOJ investigations found that the Sheriff's offices in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Alamance County, North Carolina, Latino district were aimed And were arrested as a non-Latino driver.

A study 2022 of the Texas A & M University also showed that state troops in North Carolina and South Carolina, which were not part of 287 (g) agreements, were shared by agencies that had agreements with ice.

In this story, information from the Florida intelligence service was used.