DeSantis Issues Memo To Lawmakers: Police Leaders Who Decline To Help Deportations Will Be Imprisoned

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the power to suspend or criminally charge local officials who don’t train at least 10% of their law enforcement staff to detain and deport undocumented immigrants or follow other tough new immigration rules he’s proposed. In a four-page memo to legislative leaders, DeSantis said he wants to make it mandatory for all law enforcement agencies and local governments to cooperate to help enforce federal immigration law. It is now voluntary.

That includes training at least 10% of state and local law enforcement staff to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement round up, detain and deport immigrants who entered the country illegally. “It’s one thing to update someone’s job description,” Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, D-Orlando, said. “It’s another thing to say if you don’t

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