Just two days after hundreds of people gathered outside of Orlando City Hall to protest the killing of Minneapolis mom Renee Good by a federal immigration enforcement agent, local advocates repeated their call for Orange County government to end its collaboration with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.
During county commissioners’ regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, advocates demanded that the county — one of the last Democratic strongholds in Florida — at the very least file a lawsuit to seek guidance on whether the county would legally be able to end its agreement with ICE under the state’s immigration laws.
“All throughout the country and all throughout this state and all throughout Orlando, everyday people are standing up to ICE,” said Corey Hill with anti-Trump group Orlando 50501, speaking to Orange County commissioners and the mayor Tuesday. “All that we ask is that you show some of that courage and be brave with us.”…