[AMP.USATODAY] Florida’s new so-called "sanctuary cities" law, which prohibits local governments from enacting sanctuary policies and requires local law enforcement to help ICE detain imA coalition of immigrant rights groups, including Florida Immigrant Coalition, Farmworker Association of Florida, WeCount!, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Hope Community Center, QLatinx, and the City of Miami filed the suit in federal court in Miami this morning. The injunction request is the first lawsuit to target the controversial law.
Rather than make Florida communities more secure, the lawsuit said, the law will lead to "the erosion of trust in law enforcement, racial profiling, and the violation of the constitutional rights of hundreds of thousands of Floridians."
The lawsuit also contends that hate groups drafted the original version of SB 168 and recruited state politicians "to turn their anti-immigrant agenda into state law."