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Last August, officers for Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Commission and Conservation, the agency tasked with protecting wildlife and the environment, approached a group of Hispanic men fishing on a dock and asked to do a routine inspection of their fish.
According to body camera footage obtained by a local television station, the officers called Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One said they had been told to do immigration checks on people who look a certain way.
“We’ve been instructed to check with immigration on anyone that just gives us a passport and doesn’t appear to be a citizen,” he said. It’s not clear who gave the instructions.
The officers arrested five men and turned them over to ICE.
