By Ana Ceballos, Syra Ortiz Blanes and Jay Weaver Herald/Times Tallahassee
TALLAHASEE
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday told state and local law enforcement agencies that he cannot “prevent” them from enforcing a new state immigration law and that if they continue to make arrests of undocumented immigrants entering Florida, he thinks it would be lawful — even though a federal judge specifically ruled otherwise.
“It is my view that no lawful, legitimate order currently impedes your agencies from continuing to enforce Florida’s new illegal entry and reentry laws,” Uthmeier wrote in the memo, which his office shared with the Miami Herald.
The memo, echoed in a brief filed by his office on Wednesday in Miami federal court, sets up a showdown with U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. Last Friday, Williams scolded lawyers for the state attorney general’s office after learning that Florida Highway Patrol officers had arrested more than a dozen people — including a U.S. citizen — after she had ordered them to stop in an April 4 ruling.
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