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A judge blocked Florida's immigration law. Police arrested 25 anyway
Most were arrested after being stopped by Florida Highway Patrol for minor traffic violations. Some ended up in ICE custody.Florida police arrested more than two dozen people under a controversial new immigration law that makes it a crime to enter the state while undocumented — after a judge blocked the measure saying it was likely unconstitutional, a Tampa Bay Times analysis has found.
At least nine of the 25 arrested have landed in immigration detention — scattered across the country from a crowded lockup in Miami to a facility in a sleepy Texas railway town to a confinement in a Pacific Northwest port city overlooked by Mount Rainier.
Nearly all of them ended up on the radar of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after they were stopped by Florida Highway Patrol officers on the road.
Most were pulled over for minor traffic infractions: following too closely, going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, stopping on the side of the highway. One man was arrested after he was an apparent victim in a hit-and-run crash. Another was a U.S. citizen.
Ten faced no other charges besides the immigration crime. None were arrested for violent offenses. Six were merely passengers in another person’s vehicle.
https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2025/05/28/judge-blocked-floridas-immigration-law-police-arrested-25-anyway/