Key West Votes to End Local Agreement with ICE Immigration Enforcement

By |2025-07-06T17:49:18-04:00July 6th, 2025|

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.

Key West votes to end agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

By |2025-07-03T18:28:20-04:00July 3rd, 2025|

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.

The Delusion and Disillusion of the NAACP

By |2023-05-24T11:31:37-04:00May 24th, 2023|

[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.

Eleventh Circuit Upholds Nearly All of Florida’s 2021 Election Integrity Laws

By |2023-10-12T17:59:39-04:00May 1st, 2023|

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.”

ACRU Supports Race-Neutral Florida Voting Laws

By |2023-03-06T11:35:43-05:00October 13th, 2022|

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.

Florida Capital Star: Are election volunteers “helping” themselves to others’ votes?

By |2023-03-06T11:59:02-05:00February 21st, 2022|

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?

Von Spakovsky: Media Attacks Florida’s Governor for Proposing to Go After Election Crimes

By |2023-03-06T11:59:11-05:00February 2nd, 2022|

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.

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