It never ceases to amaze me the lengths the progressive liberal media will go to fan outrage in support of one of their pet causes.
This particular crusade being opposition to Trump's opposition to the continued presence of illegal aliens within our borders and his administration's efforts to find and then boot said illegals back over to the other side of those borders.
Preferably all the way home to their country of origin if he can swing it. It's been a very popular policy.
Mainstream media and print newsrags like the Miami Herald have a deep-seated aversion to this concept and an oft-expressed softness in the hearts for the plight of the illegal or undocumented, as they prefer to call them.
Florida's Governor DeSantis, who has always been a burr in the side of the Herald, ergo a target of every opportunity for their bile to foam and spill, is also on an anti-illegal tear in his waning days in office.
As emnity goes with the press and the governor, as Madeleine Kahn memorably said, 'The feeling is moo-too-all.'
🚨 OMG. This reporter just called illegals "undocumented," DeSantis corrected him, and the reporter re-phrased the question because of it.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 23, 2025
REPORTER: Florida has hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants-
GOVERNOR DESANTIS: -The statutory term, per the Trump… pic.twitter.com/9nKkptj1kq
There's also no daylight between the Trump administration's illegal immigration policy and the governor who sent a planeload of illegals to Martha's Vineyard for a weekend getaway. DeSantis was already well situated to implement Trump policy.
Newsom: We’re spending $50 million to fight Trump and protect illegals
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 13, 2025
DeSantis: We’re going to do everything to help Trump with deportations and enforcing immigration law
Leadership matters. Elections have consequences. pic.twitter.com/R7HPhBU3oB
Consequently, FL sheriffs' departments and state law enforcement have found it easy to swing into action.
Today, I embedded with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office who worked with Border Patrol to arrest illegal immigrants, some of whom had criminal records or warrants. It’s all part of the crackdown ordered by Gov. DeSantis to help the Trump admin.
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 26, 2025
Story to come.@theblaze pic.twitter.com/M39FuZjXZC
This is all taking a toll on the tenderhearts of the journalism cabal, and they've been looking for any excuse to gin up the next controversy against either the president or governor, in order to paint them as heartless tyrants preying on the weak and defenseless.
The Miami Herald was sure it had found the vehicle to do so with their latest outraged salvo.
Florida troopers patrolling the state’s roadways are being told to arrest and jail undocumented immigrants on offenses like driving without a valid driver’s license as a way to help push more people on the path to deportation, according to state guidelines obtained by the Herald/Times.
“Every effort should be made to take the subject into custody and deliver them to a county jail,” Bill Minton, the chief attorney for the Florida Highway Patrol, wrote in the March 6 memo.
The previously unreported guidelines also say troopers can detain people who are not suspected of committing a crime for up to an hour, an amount of time that raises questions about potential violations of a person’s constitutional protection against unreasonable seizure.
The legal guidance lays out how the state is telling troopers they must handle encounters with immigrants who are wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while they remain without the federal authority to carry out immigration arrests.
It also shows how the state agency — whose mission is to create a safe driving environment in Florida — is trying to make headway in how it can help in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, even as the federal government is slow to grant troopers the federal authority they are seeking to more directly participate in federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Perhaps you've already seen where the sympathy ploy stepped on a rake here.
Wouldn't anyone in almost any state be 'arrested for driving WITHOUT a valid driver's license'?
Yes, because us regular citizens can drive around without a valid license NO PROBLEM.
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) April 2, 2025
I was under the impression that driving without a license is a big deal in most locations.
These unlicensed immigrants also tend to have an accident problem, which becomes an even bigger problem as they are also not fond of paying for car insurance.
The Herald, here, wants you to believe that not possessing a license is only a mechanism to snatch up these poor immigrants and bundle them off to the county hoosgow to wait for the feds.
IT'S A TRAP
According to the piece, there have been close to 1100 FL troopers who have already gone through the federal training to be able to stop an individual, ask about immigration status and effect an arrest if warranted, but as of yet none of them have the federal certification necessary to perform purely immigration-related activities and arrests.
What they do have and can access in the meantime is the federal database loaded into the computer in every trooper's vehicle. It will let them know if there's an ICE retainer on an individual, etc. If the illegal hasn't committed a state crime they could be held for - like driving without a license - but does ping in the system, the FL troopers are authorised to hold them for up to an hour for ICE to arrive to take custody.
If no one shows up, troopers are to get all the personal info they can and turn them loose.
The Herald and alien activists are appalled by this unjust and inhumane treatment.
...It is because of this database that Florida troopers can check whether someone they stopped is wanted by ICE. The problem is that they can’t act on that information alone because they do not have the federal authority yet, Minton writes.
“These are civil warrants… not criminal warrants,” Minton writes. “At present, troopers have no authority to enforce them.”
Minton, however, is not asking troopers to disregard the information. Instead, he says troopers should take the information into account during traffic stops, even in cases when the person is not suspected of committing a crime.
In those scenarios, troopers are being told they can hold the individuals for up to an hour as they wait for a federal immigration agent to come and pick them up, according to the memo. If a federal immigration agent does not arrive within an hour, troopers should “gather as much personal information available, including all residence and work information,” and then release the person.
The wait time is now raising concerns among some immigrant advocates who say holding a person for an hour without reasonable suspicion of a crime is a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, which protect individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures.
'Immigrant advocates' also dismiss it as a waste of time and resources for troopers in an effort to 'curry favor' with the Trump administration.
...“Let’s get real about what the community is actually afraid of,” she said. “It’s not a mom driving without a license. It is somebody walking around with a gun and holding you up.”
These same people insist illegals driving around without licenses never have guns and hold people up.
LET'S GET REAL
No worries.
The Herald is on the real danger.
