Florida City Ends ICE Deal Ahead of Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Visit

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Florida City Ends ICE Deal Ahead of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Visit
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Key West, home to the southernmost point in the continental U.S., voted to end its cooperation agreement with ICE.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Published Jul. 1 2025 1:43PM EDT


A Florida city welcomed President Donald Trump to the state Tuesday by making life harder for his ICE goons.

Hours before Trump touched down at Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz,” city commissioners in Key West voted 6-1 in favor of scrapping an agreement requiring local police to coordinate with federal immigration officials.

The vote “basically invalidated the city’s most recent agreement with ICE,” which was reached in March, reported Local 10.

“People who are seeking political asylum are important members of our community,” Commissioner Samuel Kaufman said, according to WLRN. “We have thousands of them here, by the way. And they deserve the respect that anybody else does.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-city-ends-ice-deal-ahead-of-trumps-alligator-alcatraz-visit/

[Deuxcents]

1. The Conch Republic has spoken

[Jack Valentino]

2. HA! I was just about to bring up that forgotten Fox series, "Key West" circa 1993

I loved that show, lol. Yes, for those who may be unfamiliar, it was set in Key West--

In one episode, the residents united to prevent the deportation of one of the main characters...
They seceded from the union and declared themselves 'The Conch Republic"!

That action got nationwide press coverage and resulted in a compromise... in the fantasyland of television, anyway...


That was fiction, but I'd like to see more resistance by cities played out in reality---

They can START by refusing to spend their police budgets on gassing protesters against I.C.E. agents.
(Just tell ICE they can't afford it anymore, what with the impending cuts to healthcare...)

[Cha]

3. Wow... that ought to make Traitor fuckhead

go Off on his Gaslit Social

[joshdawg]

4. Hopefully he has an aneurysm in his head

and it explodes after reading....er, someone telling him about this.
One can only hope.........

[Cha]

5. I hear ya, JOshdawg...

Be a shame if he got too close to a hungry alligator.