FL Schools Will Comply With Trump’s Immigration Orders

FLORIDA — The Florida Department of Education will comply with new federal orders from President Donald Trump allowing immigration enforcement actions at schools, reports said.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday — just a day after his inauguration — it would allow federal immigration agencies to make arrests at schools, churches and hospitals, ending a policy that had been in effect since 2011.

"Florida schools will cooperate with all law enforcement working to enforce the nation’s laws on illegal immigration and keep our schools safe," Sydney Booker, spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education, said, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

She didn’t specify whether this meant allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on school campuses.

A Trump directive rescinds former President Joe Biden’s administrative guidelines for ICE and Customs and Border Protection enforcement in or near “so-called ‘sensitive’ areas,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a news release.

A second Trump directive “ends the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returns the program to a case-by-case basis,” DHS said. “ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law.”

His administration claims 1.5 million people entered the United States during Biden’s time as president.

“This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens — including murders and rapists — who have illegally come into our country. Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense,” DHS said.

As of Thursday night, ICE made 538 arrests with 373 detained, the agency posted to X, formerly Twitter.

This includes at least six unauthorized immigrants from Guatemala who were arrested in Miami and have criminal histories including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, DWI, trespassing and vandalism, Fox 5 New York said.

This article includes reporting by The Associated Press.