JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown underway, there have been quite a few experiences swirling round Northeast Florida relating to potential raids being enforced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers.
News4JAX contacted native regulation enforcement businesses to seek out out extra about these experiences, and if these claims have been true.
St. Johns County
One declare got here from Jacksonville Immigration Legal professional Rebecca Black who instructed News4JAX, “Regionally St. Johns County is already choosing up non-licensed and undocumented immigrants. They’re calling CBP and placing them in jail and holding them.”
News4JAX contacted the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Workplace, which responded in an e-mail saying, “This isn’t correct.”
Deputies additionally mentioned the sheriff’s workplace would comply with up for extra clarification.
On the time of this publication, SJSO had not adopted up.
Duval County
News4JAX additionally acquired an e-mail asking about ICE checkpoints at College and San Jose boulevards.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace instructed News4JAX officers arrests for crimes, and ICE brokers determine if they should come and take over. However JSO clarified officers don’t make arrests for ICE.
There have been additionally questions on Duval County Faculties particularly, with one tipster saying they heard ICE is likely to be coming into colleges to “gather college students.”
News4JAX reached out to the district and instantly responded “Completely false in Duval County.”
Faculty Superintendent Christopher Bernier was additionally requested about immigration enforcement on the district at a current city corridor.
“The (Trump) govt order doesn’t name for raids in colleges. It doesn’t name for that however what it does do is put us on discover that there’s a potentiality of Secret Service, ICE brokers, JSO displaying up at our colleges. If a police officer or a sworn regulation enforcement officer has a warrant, a courtroom order, then our insurance policies are very clear, within the college district we don’t get in the way in which,” Bernier mentioned.
Clay County
News4JAX acquired an inquiry on social media that requested: “ICE picked up 114 people in Clay County throughout a raid right this moment. True?”
The Clay County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it wasn’t conscious of any raids like that within the county, and prompt to contact the Division of Homeland Safety for additional particulars.
Detentions throughout Florida
Whereas there haven’t been any confirmed experiences of surprising ICE exercise in Northeast Florida, there have been confirmed raids in different elements of the state, especially South Florida.
DeSantis, who has been very vocal on the state’s immigration objectives, has made it clear he expects native regulation enforcement to assist in these efforts.
“I don’t need to home them, I need to deport them,” DeSantis mentioned Wednesday.
Throughout a roundtable in Titusville on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned greater than 20 undocumented Chinese language nationals have been detained in South Florida by Florida Division of Legislation Enforcement brokers and Coral Gables Police Division officers.
“We have to try this, in any other case you’re by no means going to unravel this downside,” DeSantis mentioned.
On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced via X that troopers arrested 12 people “who have been believed to be illegally residing within the State of Florida.”
According to a Washington Post report published on Sunday, ICE officers have been directed throughout a name with Trump officers to “aggressively ramp up the variety of individuals they arrest, from just a few hundred per day to no less than 1,200 to 1,500.”
In keeping with the report, which cites 4 individuals with data of the briefings who spoke on the situation of anonymity, the ICE officers have been instructed that every of the “company’s discipline places of work ought to make 75 arrests per day,” and that they’d be held accountable if that quota isn’t met.
News4JAX has reached out to the Division of Homeland Safety for additional solutions on these numerous experiences and on the time of this publication, we hadn’t heard again.
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