UF signs agreement with ICE

The UF Police Department has signed an agreement allowing them to collaborate with ICE for immigration enforcement ^[1]. These 287(g) agreements would allow UFPD officers to:

interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases. ^[2]

This is in response to a directive from the Governor’s office^[3] and the UF administration has stated that they had no choice but to pursue the agreement:

"The Governor directed university police departments to collaborate with ICE. So this came down through the chain of command and there's really not a lot of opportunity to dispute that." ^[4]

President Fuchs has communicated to the Faculty Senate that “None of our UFPD have been deputized to date, and none will be without [the President's] approval" ^[5]