The scheme announced on January 17, 2018 in Florida, allows sheriffs to cooperate with ICE detainers in an agreement called Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA), under which ICE agrees to pay the jail $50 per detainer for up to 48 hours of detention. Florida jurisdictions that signed a BOA will allow ICE to keep track of ICE detainees as they are booked into and out of rented local jail space. BOAs are a new tactic that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing in Florida to circumvent court decisions which have found that local enforcement of immigration detainers is unconstitutional and they plan to roll it out across the country. If proven successful in Florida, ICE and DHS’ use of the BOA tactic will grow, increasing detention and deportation across the nation. Please join us to learn more about BOAs, local resistance to them in Florida, and the implications the Florida fight has for the rest of the nation.

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