Miami-Dade County mayor, officials set to vote on ratifying agreement between county and ICE

Miami-Dade County commissioners are set to vote on partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their efforts to crack down on illegal immigration The proposal according to commissioners serves as a codification of the current operating agreement between the county and ICE allowing the agency to have control over residents records relating to inmates who are awaiting handovers to federal officers while held in county jails The agreement also states that Miami-Dade functionaries can be reimbursed for each inmate held on a detainer Commissioner Rob Gonzalez who sponsored the bill disclosed in a tweet Miami-Dade is not and will not be a sanctuary county I m backing an item to formally approve our ICE agreement already signed by the mayor in March as required by state law We ve honored detainers since This just ensures we get reimbursed Common sense over politics Opponents of the agreement state that it contains troubling restrictions on which inmate records and statistics the county will treat as general information They also say it can potentially allow the establishment to block the release of community records about the people detained effectively disappearing them from the system Protestors are set to speak out against the agreement citing similar language used in other Florida jail systems resulting in the removal of inmates names from local search portals City police should have no role in immigration enforcement noted a protestor It breaks the trust between our residents it diverts our guidance and our taxpayer dollars and it harms our neighbors our friends and our society The Levine-Cava administration disclosed in response that the concern is unfounded and that county inmates will dependably be able to be searched by the community in the jail s portal The mayor will be joined by county commissioners in a hearing regarding the act starting at around a m Monday