Orange County mayor pours cold water on plea from immigration advocates

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings offered blunt advice for immigration advocates Tuesday: the best recourse to address their concerns is not at the county level.

“The resolution to this issue is not in these chambers,” Mayor Demings said during a county commission meeting Tuesday. “It is somewhere else.”

Demings’ remarks followed a public comment period, during which several speakers shared their frustrations about the county’s compliance with the federal government on immigration issues…

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