ICE Expands Florida Partnerships, Adding Fish and Wildlife Commission to Immigration Efforts

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is among the state agencies participating in immigration enforcement partnerships with ICE, the Associated Press reported. (Credit: Image via The Miami Hurricane)

Although federal immigration authorities drove most arrests during the early months of President Donald Trump's second administration, local police departments and state agencies have increasingly taken on that role, accounting for a growing share of immigration-related arrests in Florida.

In the Sunshine State, 347 state and local agencies have entered into partnerships with federal immigration authorities to assist in the administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.