After months of discussion over the county’s costly agreement with federal immigration enforcement, Orange County officials moved forward Tuesday with changing the agreement the county has with the federal government that allows immigration enforcement to temporarily detain people in the county jail.
Effectively, the change would shorten how long U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can detain people there, while still remaining in compliance with state law.
Under Florida statutes, the county must have some sort of agreement with ICE, despite protest from the community and even some of the county commissioners themselves…