Newsweek: Florida Breaks Away From ICE to Take Immigration Into Own Hands

[Dennis Donovan]

Newsweek - Florida Breaks Away From ICE to Take Immigration Into Own Hands

Published May 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM EDT
By Billal Rahman

Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) can conduct immigration operations independent of the Trump administration.

DeSantis, standing alongside FHP officers and federal agents in Tampa on Monday, touted the program as the nation's first of its kind.

"What we have now with FHP is that they can conduct immigration operations wholly independent of the federal government. And there's no one else in the country where they're doing that," DeSantis said at a news conference.

He added that the troopers "can do everything an immigration officer would do, up until the point" where the individual gets processed for removal.

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[allegorical oracle]

1. Like Highway Patrol officers don't have anything better to do. Doubt that they signed up

for chasing/deporting immigrants. A couple I know are married to immigrants.

[edhopper]

2. This definitely will not cost the State

millions in law suits.

[mwmisses4289]

3. And florida man shoots another arrow into the states tourism industry.

Way to go, florida man!

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. FFS, they can't even do the job they are hired to do, much less be Gestapo thugs like ICE.

ALL RETHUGS ARE IDIOTS.