Florida threatens to eliminate Key West’s leaders about the concerns of the sanctuary city

Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier said that leaders in the most southern municipality of the State face a possible elimination of the position if they are not restoring an agreement with the immigration and customs control of the United States (ICE).

On Tuesday, the Key West City Commissioners He voted 5-1 to cancel an agreement that requires his police department to be associated with ICE.

The Federal Program known as 287 (g) allows local authorities to perform certain federal functions of application of immigration, including the permission of the officers to question, arrest and detain people suspected of violating the immigration law.

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“I try not to make decisions with my heart because you can get into trouble,” said Commissioner Donald Lee, the former police chief of the city who voted to cut the so -called agreement 287 (G), Miami Herald reported. “Tonight, I’m going to make a decision of my heart, and I hope I don’t put the city in trouble.”

In a letter on Wednesday to the commissioners, the attorney general of Florida, James Uthmeier, said that his vote violates state law and has essentially turned Key West una “Sanctuary City“

“Florida’s law unequivocally prohibits the sanctuary cities,” Uthmeier wrote while demanding the city’s reverse course. “Not taking corrective measures will result in the application of all applicable civil and criminal sanctions, including the elimination of the position by the governor.”

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Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier asked Key West leaders to reverse the course on a vote that annulled the city cooperation with immigration authorities. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune news through Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has communicated with Uthmeier, the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, and the six Key West commissioners.

The law enforcement agencies that operate the County prisons in Florida must enter associations with the federal government so that its officials can carry out limited immigration Functions of the agent, the Herald reported.

On Tuesday, Desantis told journalists that Key West leaders could face the suspension for not maintaining the agreement.

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“I think the attorney general has intervened in that, and I will let the analysis do and send them any warning that should be sent,” said Desantis in the opening of the new “Alcatraz” Immigration Detention Center of Alcatraz “in the Everglades.

“But the reality is that you have the responsibility of full participation,” he added. “And you can point out virtue and try to make political statements, but the reality is that local governments have to comply with Florida’s law.”