(MIAMI) Since March 2025, at least 15 Florida public universities and colleges, including theUniversity of Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville, have signed memorandums of agreementfor their campus police departments to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
These partnerships authorize ICE agents to expand the role of campus police officers so they can receive training and “perform certain functions of an immigration officer.”
The agreements give campus police officers the federal authority to question students who are believed to be immigrants about their legal right to be in the country. Campus police officers can arrest students if the officers have “reason to believe the alien to be arrested is in the United States in violation of law.” Campus police can also check federal immigration databases to see students’ immigration status…