Florida Attorney General James Usmierer is taking the victory lap after Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said his city is not intending to violate state or federal immigration laws as he criticizes city employees as contradictory that prohibit city employees from asking about the immigration status of residents.
“We’re going to be a legal rule here in Florida… We’ve made it clear to local governments and mayors because we don’t have sanctuary cities or jurisdictions anywhere in the state.
“We can file a civil lawsuit against you. The governor can take you out of the office and other tools are at his disposal. So some of these jurisdictions have made his mind come to mind saying they may not like the law.
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“We notified them very quickly and thankfully everything has come so far and they are going to enforce the law,” he continued.
Uthmeier threatened to remove Democrat Dyer from his post if he refused to outlaw urban policies in the 2019 Florida law.
According to WUSFThe Tampa Bay-based NPR affiliate aired his grievances after Dyer told a city council meeting that the Orlando Police Department “will not be proactive in immigration enforcement and will comply with the Trust Law policy.”
In a letter written on Monday, he criticized the “trust law.” Report from the Orlando Sentinelthe policy states that “does not prohibit Orlando’s city employees from working with federal immigration authorities as required by state or federal law.”
The outlet said Commissioner Tony Ortiz, a Republican and retired police officer who led the efforts to pass the policy, argued that the “trust law” was not a sanctuary policy and Orlando was not a sanctuary city.
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Mayor Buddy Dyer said the city of Orlando intends to agree to state and federal immigration laws. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service)
Dyer responded to Usmyer in a letter the following day, saying that the city of Orlando “takes his letters, Florida law and federal immigration law very seriously.”
“Neither me nor the Orlando Police Department intends to violate federal or state law. You know, we have signed the Memorandum 287(g) Task Force Model with ICE.” He wrote.
“Our OPD officers are in the process of being trained at ICE to provide assistance in that direction. We ensure that we continue our best efforts to support federal immigration law enforcement and state law enforcement.”
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