On the 4th of August, protesters gathered in Orlando to demand that the Orange County Commissioners stand up to threats from DeSantis to attempt to remove them from office if they refuse to provide transportation for hostages held by ICE at county taxpayer’s own expense. The actual law that was supposed to make 287(g) mandatory for all police agencies and sheriff’s departments in FL was blocked in the 2025 legislative session. All DeSantis has his his democracy-defying threat to fire elected local officials and replace them with his hand-picked henchmen. This so he can use Orange County taxpayer money to move those taken hostage by ICE to concentration camps such as Alligator Auschwitz.
Community activists are demanding that at the Aug 5 meeting of the Orange County commissioners that they override the current decision by Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings to expand 287(g) to transportation and vote to refuse to cooperate no matter what the price.
You CANNOT appease or compromise with Nazis. Those in Orange County claiming they “have to” submit remind me of Neville Chamberlain trying to appease Hitler. When Chamberlain’s appeasement failed to stop Hitler, the British public voted him out. The exact same thing can happen to appeasers in Orange County. They need to get the message that if they fight back, DeSantis might replace them but they go down heroes. If they submit WE replace them and they go down as chumps just like Chamberlain did. Let’s not let Jerry Demings stab our migrant brothers and sisters in the back with the long umbrella that was the symbol of Chamberlain and appeasement in the late 1930’s.