DeSantis administration threatens to punish island city that voted to end police agreement with ICE
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said leaders in the state’s most southern municipality face possible removal from office if they fail to restore an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

On Tuesday, the Key West city commissioners voted 5-1 to void an agreement that requires its police department to partner with ICE. 

The federal program known as 287(g) allows local authorities to perform certain federal immigration enforcement functions, including allowing officers to question, arrest and detain people suspected of violating immigration law.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier speaking

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier called for Key West leaders to reverse course on a vote that voided the city’s cooperation with immigration authorities.  (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has reached out to Uthmeier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the six Key West commissioners. 

Law enforcement agencies that operate county jails in Florida must enter partnerships with the federal government so their officers can carry out limited immigration agent functions, the Herald reported. 

On Tuesday, DeSantis told reporters Key West leaders could face suspension for not upholding the agreement.

“I think the attorney general has weighed in on that, and I’ll let him do the analysis and send them whatever warnings need to be sent,” DeSantis said at the opening of the new “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades. 

“But the reality is you have a responsibility for full participation,” he added. “And you can virtue signal and try to make political statements, but the reality is local governments have to abide by Florida law.”

Criminal illegal immigrants were expected be “checking in” to the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility Wednesday night, Uthmeier said. 

“Next stop: back to where they came from,” he wrote on X. 

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