The City of Jacksonville’s Office of General Counsel has advised the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office not to enforce state and local laws that make it a crime to be in the state and county without legal status in the country.
In the new guidance, which was obtained by Action News Jax, city attorneys wrote a federal injunction on the state law “would equally apply to the city’s ordinance” because the city ordinance “was modeled” after the state law.
“The reason we passed this bill, one of the main reasons, is it’s a mandate from the President,” said Council Vice President Kevin Carrico (R-District 4), who sponsored the local immigration bill…