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Miami Cities Keep Voluntarily Opting into 287 (g) ICE Agreements [1]
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Date: 2025-06-22
But this meeting was postponed and moved to Tuesday, June 17th. This event was heavily protested by a variety of individuals and organizations against the City of Miami signing onto 287 (g). The organizations included Power U, ACLU Florida, Florida Rising, Engage, the Miami Workers Center, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Catalyst Miami, the People’s Progressive Caucus, and Abel S. Delgado, president of the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus. All placed by City of Miami police, a bit off of and not in front of Miami’s city hall. This group was a mixture of center-left folks, lefties, social democrats, socialists, and, surprisingly, two black bloc guys.
With protestors amassed, this June 17th hearing was also almost postponed, but the proceedings carried on. I did not take a seat at the hearing due to the event being packed, but I received correspondence that the vote on 287 (g) was deferred by full consent.
But this is not where the story ends. The same day of the hearing and demonstrations, June 17th, 2025, the City of Miami commission “After hours of passionate public comment against the measure, Miami commissioners narrowly voted to deputize local police with immigration enforcement powers...the Commission ultimately passed the agreement in a narrow 3-2 vote” ( WLRN ). This is another painful domino as “The
Coral Gables, West Miami, Miami Springs and other Miami-Dade County cities” ( Miami Herald ).
ICE is the front line of cruel immigration policies, having a deportation quota of 3,000 persons a day (
), abuses at the Krome Detention Center (
), and operating in plain clothes, which creates communal fear (
). In my opinion, the existence of ICE as it currently stands and international deportation to locations such as
and
are violations of human rights. The debates on undocumented immigration have left the realm of a pathway to citizenship or limited immigration. Instead, the United States is at the crossroads of xenophobic mass deportation, regardless of whether the migrants are criminals or not. Trump himself admitted his administration was not just going after criminals when he wrote, “Our great farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them” (
). This tweet became a directive, yet this directive not to go after undocumented farmers and hospitality workers was rapidly reversed (
).
If cruelty and not considering individual situations is the policy of ICE, then I encourage peaceful protest in your city or state if they consider signing onto 287 (g). Maximally, ICE as it exists must be abolished or reformed to the point that it is unrecognizable. ICE has been around since 2003, immigration enforcement does not necessitate the existence of ICE, especially since ICE operates as a lawless
law enforcement making
arrests against
Changes and pushing back against ICE cannot just be deferred; ICE, alongside other policies, needs to be pushed back against if the United States wants humane and reasonable immigration policies.
Speaking of Homestead, on June 18th there was a small demonstration against Homestead’s partnership with ICE after the mayor of Homestead’s brother Jeff Losner posted a comment on a video of an anti-ICE demonstration that read, “ ICE ICE Baby ”.The city government of Homestead has not be the clearest to the citizenry or law enforcement on their partnership with ICE. Many police officers do not even know about their city’s partnership with ICE according to organizer Jonathan Osbun. The city of Homestead is also stating that their police force does not train with ICE ( @homestead_crimes_ ). Yet, Homestead partnered with ICE all the way back in April after “In a city of immigrants and refugees, including members of my own family directly working with ICE is a betrayal. I have only touched upon the City of Miami and Homestead, Florida, there is a level of cowardice here, giving into state and federal politics over those that make up the South Florida community. It is a betrayal to let an organization like ICE which has regularly violated habeas corpus ( KPBS Texas Civil Rights Project ).
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