DeSantis accuses Miami-Dade of releasing arrestees with immigration holds

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis accused Miami-Dade County officers on Friday of “refusing to honor” immigration authorities’ maintain requests.

Miami-Dade public defenders have been asking the corrections division to exempt some arrestees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds.

Within the declarations, the general public defenders cite a state regulation that protects undocumented migrants who’re victims or witnesses of sure crimes.

“Miami-Dade seems to be basing this illegal conduct on fraudulent use of the sufferer and witness exception,” Gov. Ron DeSantis and his common counsel wrote in a petition to the Florida Supreme Court docket filed on Friday.

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DeSantis claimed this included suspects in circumstances of tried homicide, home violence by strangulation, assault with a lethal weapon, and lewd and lascivious habits on a minor.

Juan Diasgranados, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, stated Miami-Dade County has honored and actively cooperated with incoming federal detainer requests since 2017.

“Our county stays deeply dedicated to cooperating with our federal, state, and native companions to make sure security for our residents and honor the rule of regulation,” Diasgranados stated in an announcement.

On Friday, DeSantis petitioned the Florida Supreme Court docket to arrange a grand jury to analyze immigration enforcement points such because the one he alleged is occurring in Miami-Dade County.

“Each prosecutor is at all times involved that people launched to our streets don’t endanger the general public’s security. Any choice involving launch, together with the lifting of a federal detainer, ought to at all times be cautiously thought-about, in accordance with the regulation,” Miami-Dade State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle stated in an announcement.

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DeSantis additionally signed a invoice on Friday requiring corrections to enter into an settlement with ICE by subsequent yr. In 2019, DeSantis signed a invoice to require native governments to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

“We can not flip a blind eye to traffickers and smugglers,” Lawyer Normal Ashley Moody stated in an announcement.

DeSantis additionally introduced the formation of a state strike pressure. Former U.S. Lawyer Lawrence “Larry” Keefe, the state’s public security czar, launched an announcement saying the strike pressure will work with the state attorneys to prosecute human smugglers.

The general public info workplace of the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Workplace has but to reply to a request for remark.

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