A judge halted a Florida immigration law months ago. Some officers are still enforcing it
Despite a judicial injunction suspending the law, some Florida officers continue enforcement resulting in multiple wrongful charges, according to bimonthly reports by the attorney general.
- Two men were wrongly charged under a suspended Florida immigration law in separate incidents last weekend.
- A federal judge earlier this year ordered that the law could not be enforced while challenged in court, but some officers are still enforcing it.
- Florida's Attorney General has been filing bimonthly reports on such arrests as ordered by the judge who found him in civil contempt.
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Two men were unjustly charged last weekend under a broad Florida immigration law that is currently suspended by a court order, according to a Monday report from the state attorney general’s office. Both men were charged in separate instances in Bradenton under a Florida law that prohibits people living illegally in the U.S. from entering the state, even though a federal judge said earlier this year that the law could not apply while it was chall…

A judge halted a Florida immigration law months ago. Some officers are still enforcing it
Two men have been wrongly charged under a Florida immigration law that’s currently suspended. The state attorney general’s office reported these charges on Monday.
Two men were wrongly charged last weekend under a Florida immigration law, currently suspended by a court order, according to a report released Monday by the state's attorney general's office.
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