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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

‘Trust is gone’: fears grow as police on some Florida campuses trained by Ice

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Students on campus at the Florida International University in Miami, Florida, in 2021. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Fears of a new wave of deportations and student visa cancellations are rising at a number of Florida’s most diverse universities after administrators signed agreements recasting campus police as federal immigration agents.

Miami’s Florida International University (FIU) is one of at least 11 state colleges to enroll in the top tier of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) 287(g) program that trains local police departments for “limited” involvement in immigration operations.

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