In a dark, potential precursor to Donald Trump, Florida’s Musk-loving attorney general is not just defying a court order to stop arresting immigrants but claiming the U.S. Constitution gives him the right to do so. According to Law & Crime, AG James Uthmeier claimed state authorities were “fulfilling their constitutional duties” by flouting the judge’s order. In a motion, his office claimed to be “exercise[ing] Florida’s inherent sovereign authority” by “aiding the enforcement of federal immigration law.”
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[U.S. District Judge Kathleen] Williams, a Barack Obama appointee, issued a 14-day stay on April 4 that blocked a law signed into effect by Gov. Ron DeSantis in February, which gave state law enforcement the power to arrest and prosecute undocumented immigrants. It is now a first-degree misdemeanor for a person to enter Florida as an “unauthorized alien.”
Williams ordered that the law not be enforced in Florida, arguing that it was the federal government’s responsibility to apprehend and litigate migrants, not individual states.
