About 30 people gathered Monday evening in Orlando to protest Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings signing an agreement allowing local corrections officers to transport immigrant detainees to federal detention centers.
“We would not use our tax dollars for a valet service for ICE to send our brothers and sisters to unknown black sites throughout the state,” said Cassia Laham, an organizer with the group Orlando Against Police Crimes.
Demings initially opposed the agreement, which he and all six county commissioners voted against, but relented and approved it Friday under intense pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis…