The Tampa Police Department has revised its policies on immigration enforcement in response to a demand Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued last week. Uthmeier had accused the department of having “sanctuary policies” and threatened to remove Mayor Jane Castor from office unless the city backed down.
“The city of Tampa has no intention of violating state or federal law,” Castor wrote in a letter to Uthmeier on Monday. “We will continue to use best efforts to support the enforcement of federal immigration law, as well as state law.”
In his letter to Castor last week, Uthmeier wrote that his office had become aware of TPD’s policies connected to 287(g) immigration enforcement agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…