The Jacksonville City Council approved an ordinance at Tuesday night’s meeting to restrict publicly-funded assistance to undocumented immigrants, but not without several changes and heated debate.
The bill, which passed 11 to 7, would require Mayor Donna Deegan’s office to provide a report to the City Council Finance Committee regarding all federal grants, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, and the number of undocumented immigrants in public housing.
The vote was immediately met with a strong reaction from the crowd, with several yelling “shame!”…