Virtue Signaling or Fence Sitting? Florida Mayor Refuses to Sign — or Veto — Immigration Bill

Here’s a head-scratcher for you. (Well, probably not really since she’s a Democrat.) 

Last week, the Jacksonville, Fla., City Council passed the Jacksonville Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act in a 12-5 vote. The ordinance will make it a “local crime for undocumented immigrants to enter or reside in the city of Jacksonville” and it will provide the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office with resources needed for “identifying immigrants without permanent legal status,” including 25 mobile fingerprint scanners. 

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But Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan refused to sign it on Wednesday. She also refused to veto it. That means it will go still go into effect.  

Deegan held a press conference on Wednesday, stating that the sheriff’s office will still get its funding but beyond that, she felt that

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