The United States Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) announced on Saturday (27) that the agency and police authorities of the State of Florida arrested almost 800 people in four days as part of a “large immigration surveillance operation involving various agencies.”
ICE’s office in Miami called the operation “highly successful” and “a pioneering partnership between state and federal partners”.
THE CNN He contacted Ice for more details about who was arrested, his legal status and the scope of the operation.
Florida Governor Ron Desantis praised the operation as “an example of how Florida and (the Department of Internal Security) work in partnership to achieve excellent results in the application of the immigration and deportation law”, according to an X statement.
“Florida leads the nation in active cooperation with the Trump government in immigration and deportation operations!” Denantis wrote in another post on Saturday (26).
The large number of prisons reported through President Donald Trump’s continuous repression of illegal immigration and while the Justice Department moves to process state and local authorities accused of disrupting this effort.
Disantis and other Florida Republican leaders have pressured local authorities in the state to sign agreements with ICE under the 287 Program (G), which allows local authorities to receive training from ICE and collaborate to apply aspects of the US Immigration Law.
Florida leaders warned that state law allows the deportation of authorities who refuse to cooperate with the imprisonment efforts of immigration from the federal government.
State agencies, including Florida Highway Patrol, Florida State Guard, Florida Agricultural Police Department and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission signed collaboration agreements with ICE, according to an announcement made by Discant in February.
In total, more than 200 state, municipal and conded police agencies in Florida signed cooperation agreements with ICE, and more than 70 have pending agreements, according to data from the Department of Internal Security.
Earlier this month, several Florida universities announced that his campus police also signed the ICE agreements, further feeding fears among international students in the midst of the Trump government of hundreds of student visas at Universities in the United States.
Pressure to cooperate
Local leaders in various parts of Florida approved cooperation agreements with ICE, although they expressed opposition to them.
The Municipal Council of the Suburb of Doral, in Miami, which has the largest population of Venezuelan immigrants in the country, voted unanimously to approve an agreement with ICE earlier this month, but the members of the council made it clear that they were obliged to do so by state law.
“The state is forcing us to take certain measures and, if we do not do, we are threatened with criminal sanctions,” said the city attorney, Lorenzo Cobiella, adding: “Approving this is painful to all. We are all immigrants … We all have families who come from different places where there is a lot of suffering at this time.”
Thomas Kennedy, political director of the Florida immigrant coalition, characterized the operation as “part of this prolonged effort from the state government to essentially force local police departments to execute immigration inspection.”
“These police officers became police officers to be police officers, not immigration agents,” he told the CNN This Sunday. “They should be patrolling the highways, not terrifying indocmented people who are just trying to live in Florida, pay taxes and work,” he added.
He said he believes that the wave of prisons is part of an effort to “create fear” so that indocmented immigrants call themselves.
The repression of immigration “will create a less friendly, less welcoming and more persecutory state,” said Kennedy, “where workers’ scarcity increases, where communities are less safe because they are afraid to report crimes, where police departments are overloaded, doing work they should not do.”
Last month, members of the Fort Myers Municipal Council voted against the partnership with ICE, but then went back and approved it after Florida’s attorney general sent them a letter warning that the governor could remove them.
Attorney General James Uthmeier called the initial denial of a “serious and direct violation” of the Florida Law that prohibits “sanctuaries”.
Traded local authorities
The US Department of Justice has repeatedly stated that it will investigate any local authority that does not assist federal authorities on immigration issues.
Last week, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI and accused in a Federal Court for allegedly helping an immigrant without document to avoid arrest. She initially compared to court and was then released.
In court on Friday (25), Dugan’s lawyer stated: “Judge Dugan deeply regrets his arrest and protests. This was not done for public security,” according to AP.
Also last week, former Mexico Missico Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were accused of tampering with the arrest of an undocumented immigrant suspected of being a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, according to two criminal complaints.
Migrant Cristhian Ortega-López is a Venezuelan citizen who was accused at the beginning of this year of illegal possession of firearms or ammunition, show court documents.
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