The Key West, Florida’s commissioners voted Tuesday to end the city’s cooperation agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prompting a stern warning from the state’s attorney general.
The vote was 5-1, voiding an agreement that the nation’s southernmost city’s police chief, Sean Brandenburg, entered into with ICE in March, the Miami Herald reported.
The agreement was part of a federal program known as 287(g), named after a section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
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It “allows local authorities to perform certain federal immigration enforcement functions, including allowing officers to question, arrest and detain people suspected of violating immigration law,” according to Fox News.
BREAKING: The city commission for Key West, Florida, has voted 6-1 to VOID its immigration enforcement
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