Little more than 24 hours passed since the Orlando Mayor Jerry Demings vowed to never sign an agreement with ICE. He said he wouldn’t be “bullied into doing it.”
Then Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier threatened the mayor and all six county commissioners that their failure to do so would result in their removal from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
That’s when he caved and signed the agreement in record time.
“Yes, we signed the damn thing because we really had to. We were put in a tough spot,” Demings said during a late afternoon press conference in Orlando. “I can’t let our entire board of county commissioners and myself be removed from office.”
Demings signed an addendum to modify the 287(g) Warrant Service Officer (WSO) Memorandum of Agreement that will allow county jail officials to transport immigration detainees to ICE facilities — although he said he still needs to assess the readiness of his corrections department staff to do so while keeping everyone safe at the county jail. He said that there are 212 vacancies within the Orange County corrections department right now, a vacancy rate of 24%.
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The Orlando Mayor has agreed to sign a joint agreement with ICE, just 24 hours after he vowed he “wouldn’t be bullied” into doing it.
This came after DeSantis threatened to remove him for violating state law.
That might be the fastest capitulation of all time.
— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) August 2, 2025
You should be fired if you refuse to do your job to uphold the oath that you took when you were elected.
So then Disney can be raided. There are >70,000 employees.
Just what I thought I would see!!!!!!!!!!
DeSantis is very experienced at removing duly elected officials from office. Those in his state are NOT protected by the US Constitution, as has been amply demonstrated. I love to see Dems gone, but this is NOT the way. DeSantis, to remind people, also removed a number of duly REPUBLICAN officials (Manatee County, for example) from office, too.
name one area run by them that is a success story
So true! But, if someone can summarily remove others from office, where is our Constitution and body of law?
It’s called obey the law.
Demings is the mayor of Orange County, not the city of Orlando. His wife Val was the incompetent Orlando police chief for awhile, then unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate.
Clown Show!!!
Can you name the clowns? Just curious… 😉