Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) is telling local police agencies that they can ignore a federal court order blocking enforcement of Florida’s state-specific immigration criminal penalties.
“I cannot prevent you from enforcing” the immigration laws “where there remains no judicial order that properly restrains you from doing so,” Uthmeier wrote in a Wednesday letter to sheriffs, the state law enforcement department, the highway patrol, and local police chiefs.
The move is an abrupt turn from Uthmeier, who sent a letter Friday in which he said that he disagreed with, but encouraged police to follow, an order from US District ...
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