FL AG Threatens To Charge Key West Officials Over ICE

Florida Politics reports:

State Attorney James Uthmeier says Key West officials risk removal from office if they don’t reverse course regarding the city’s immigration enforcement policy.

Uthmeier sent a letter to Key West City Commissioners threatening civil and criminal penalties if the municipality doesn’t restore its law enforcement agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arguing officials are violating Florida’s ban on “sanctuary cities.”

Key West officials on Monday canceled an agreement for local law enforcement to assist federal officers in enforcing immigration laws and apprehending undocumented individuals in the country illegally. Elected city officials at the meeting said they had no interest in advancing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Read the full article. Last month a federal judge held Uthmeier in contempt for defying an order regarding ICE.