Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Key West City Commissioners — under pressure from Florida’s attorney general — reversed a decision that was praised by residents at a previous meeting and voted to reenter into a 287(g) immigration enforcement agreement between local police and federal officials. It would deputize and train local law enforcement as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Two hundred Marines are being sent to Florida to help federal immigration authorities with “critical administrative and logistical capabilities” — not to apprehend suspected undocumented immigrants — U.S. Northern Command officials said Thursday.

Florida law enforcement agencies' cooperation with federal immigration officials is causing concerns among family members and immigrants' rights advocates that people will disappear into county jail systems.

Responding to an outcry of business owners, church leaders and local residents, the Key West City Commission cancelled the city’s agreement to allow local police to assist federal immigration agents in apprehending suspected undocumented immigrants.

Cuban national Isidro Perez died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, making him the fifth detainee to die in Florida this year.

Authorities are investigating the death of Johnny Noviello, 49, who died Monday in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami.

Using internal data obtained from U.S. Customs and Enforcement, or ICE, NBC News reports that ICE arrested 752 people convicted of homicide and 1,693 people convicted of sexual assault between Oct. 1 and May 31.

“It has had devastating effects on the economic health of our island,” says the group — the Key West Immigrant Support Network — in a statement. “If we continue down this path, it will have irreversible consequences.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis is directing the state to build an immigrant detention center on so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" — a partially-built airstrip in the Everglades.

If approved, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told Fox Business, it would become the state’s largest immigration detention facility.

The Republican lawmaker visited the prison — and plans to visit the Krome Detention Center — in response to a Miami Herald investigative story about harsh conditions and improper use of force on detainees at the Miami facility.

Law enforcement agencies are coordinating their response plans ahead of major upcoming sporting events in Miami like the FIFA Club World Cup, targeting general security and human trafficking.