Before Miami’s commissioners vote to exit the city’s 287(g) partnership with ICE — and absorb the potential legal and financial consequences of doing so — they should be able to answer one straightforward question: What would it actually change?
Not much.
At last week’s commission meeting, over 50 residents pleaded with elected officials to end the city’s participation in the federal 287(g) program, warning that it had spread fear throughout immigrant communities and turned local police into immigration agents…