April 16, 2025

Florida University Police Partner With ICE

Florida Universities Police Partner with ICE on Immigration Enforcement

MIAMI FLA.
By Rick McCann

Blue RAM Media
April 16, 2025

Across Florida university campuses, some students wonder if they’ll soon be targeted by the people who are there to protect them, the campus police.

Recently, several universities in Florida have signed agreements to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid an ongoing push by state leaders to aid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.

The University of Florida said Friday that it has signed the 287(g) agreement that allows local law enforcement to act as immigration officers.
Under the terms of the agreement, ICE delegates to local officers “the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.
This includes university campus police officers.

The agreement in Florida allows local officers to question those they suspect of being in the country illegally and “to serve and execute warrants of arrest for immigration violations,” according to a statement from Gov. Ron DeSantis in February about other law enforcement agencies in the state who signed similar agreements.

Four University of Florida students have had their visas revoked, the university’s director of public affairs confirmed.

Protests on Florida campuses and the additional friction on the University of Florida campus could put a strain on classes, and student relations with faculty and the campus police force.

At this time, several schools within the State University System of Florida have agreed to allow school police to partner with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Across Florida, 200 state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies have entered into 287(g) agreements with ICE, and more than 40 others have agreements pending, according to DHS.