Fla. County Gives Illegal Immigrants Special IDs to Get Vaccines, Public Services
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Florida’s second-most populous county is the state’s first to offer illegal immigrants identification cards so they can obtain taxpayer-funded services, including COVID-19 vaccines. Elected officials in Broward County, situated in southeast Florida with a population of about two million, unanimously passed the measure with ardent support from the county’s top law enforcement officer, Sheriff Gregory Tony. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Tony to the elected position after suspending former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel for mishandling the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Tony won his first election in November to remain the county’s top cop.
...The sheriff fully backs the new ID cards for illegal immigrants and says they will have a positive impact on public safety, according to a local news report. Tony even wrote a letter of support to the Broward County commissioner who introduced the legislation to create the special IDs for those in the country illegally. This may seem strange considering he runs Florida’s largest sheriff’s department with 5,400 employees, including nearly 3,000 certified deputies. “Today, Broward County has thousands of residents who lack identification for various reasons,” Sheriff Tony’s letter to the commissioner reads. “With the homeless, undocumented, formerly incarcerated, to elderly, these and other bureaucratically-challenged residents do not have access to many basic and vital services. The community ID will provide these residents with a way to access those services.”
...To protect the privacy of illegal immigrants Broward County will not issue the special IDs, but rather a nonprofit will carry out the task to avoid potential public records requests.
...The Broward County community IDs will be issued by Legal Aid Service of Broward County, a group that provides free legal advice and representation to the county’s “disadvantaged,” including illegal immigrants. The group helps improve the lifestyle and living conditions in low-income communities and encourages self-sufficiency, according to its website.
It is not clear how Legal Aid was chosen to administer Broward County’s new IDs cards, but the measure to do so was passed after a “months-long campaign of advocacy and outreach by a diverse coalition of community organizations,” a local news article reveals. Predictably, the groups advocate for open borders and rights for illegal aliens. They include United We Dream, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Hispanic Unity of Florida, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
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Broward County the main source of liberal NYC type politics in Florida. Will DeSantis allow this? Can DeSantis do anything to prevent this?
“Fla. County Gives Illegal Immigrants Special IDs to Get Vaccines, Public Services”
This type of fake ID has been issued all over NC for years. Guilford, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties for sure. Anywhere that is “sanctuary” for the illegals finds some way to circumvent a legitimate identification. Banks even recognize these along with the Mexican Matricular “ID” (which is not verifiable.) It always seems to start with the police departments claiming they need some way to identify unidentifiable people.
The mere lack of a verifiable identity should be the impetus to call in ICE and ship them out. That banks and government services recognize these fake cards is an outrage.