Key West ended its local police’s participation in the 287(g) immigration enforcement agreement with ICE as of July 1, 2025. This decision responded to community opposition and aims to foster trust, despite potential legal challenges from Florida’s Attorney General signaling conflict over state vs local authority.
The City of Key West has canceled its agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The city’s commission voted to end the agreement at a special meeting Monday night after having allowed local police to assist federal immigration agents in detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.
Three programs under 287g will allow deputies and corrections officers at jails in Florida to undergo training and be certified to serve warrants, make probable cause arrests and take part in street task forces.
Local governments across Florida are beginning to work alongside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train local law enforcement to identify and remove criminal immigrants.
Source: Here’s what to know about immigration ‘task forces’ across Florida | WUWF
Fed up with the inactivity of the bureaucratic machine in Washington, DC, the American Constitutional Rights Union and the citizens of Collier County, Florida have put a stake in the ground ending unconstitutional federal overreach.
[The NAACP] is an ideological and agenda-driven organization, aligned with a political party that has consistently embraced the ideas of physical and economic enslavement when it comes to Blacks in America.
In an April 27, 2023, decision, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed almost all of a district court ruling that declared Florida election laws regulating ballot drop boxes, the solicitation of voters at the polls, and the delivery of voter registration forms by third-party voter-registration organizations to be unconstitutional and unlawful. The court rejected the district court’s conclusion that the provisions were motivated by intentional discrimination on the basis of race. It explained, “From the start, the district court erred.” In particular, it criticized the district court for conflating race and political considerations. The court pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, where the Supreme Court said, “[P]artisan motives are not the same as racial motives.”
The American Constitutional Rights Union, joined by the Alabama Center for Law and Liberty, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida as it defended race-neutral laws regulating drop boxes for vote-by-mail ballots, the return of voter registration forms, and activity at or near a polling place.
Sometimes vote fraud happens from a distance (absentee or mailed ballots) and sometimes it’s up-close and personal. In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, the State Attorney is looking into reports of a large up-tick in volunteers from campaigns and city government “helping” the elderly or disabled to vote. In other parts of Florida, only 1 percent of voters need assistance, but in Miami-Dade that number is above 10 percent. Two-thirds of the helpers were city or campaign workers – were they assisting with votes or manipulating them?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a good idea with his budget proposal to create an “election crimes agency” that would “investigate election crimes and irregularities and make referrals for further legal action directly to a statewide prosecutor.” Florida should implement it, and other states should follow. In fact, state legislators should make sure that a statewide prosecutor’s office has jurisdiction to prosecute all such election cases, especially when local prosecutors fail to act.
