DeSantis administration responds to South Miami’s challenge to immigration law enforcement

SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis’s medication asked a justice Friday to disregard a suit by the metropolis of South Miami successful absorption to deputizing constabulary officers arsenic national agents to enforce migration law.

In a 35-page question to disregard the lawsuit successful Leon County, the authorities claimed that the city’s “failure” to articulation the Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s 287(g) program “can so uncover a sanctuary policy.”

The question besides claims that the state’s sanctuary-policy law comes with “obligations” and South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez had nary lasting to record the suit against DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.

Since Florida expanded the instrumentality known arsenic Chapter 908 to necessitate section constabulary to execute 287(g) agreements, the authorities equated the city’s refusal to the implementation of a “sanctuary” policy, records show.

In the lawsuit, Fernandez claimed the city’s constabulary officers bash cooperate with ICE by sharing information. The authorities claims helium is “not entitled to the alleviation requested.”

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