{"id":61765,"date":"2025-08-25T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61765"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:42:00","slug":"wsj-florida-cops-turn-traffic-stops-into-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61765","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/florida-traffic-stops-immigration-deportations-5c5cabc2\">Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations<\/a> by Arian Campo-Flores, Scott Calvert &amp; Elizabeth Lindell (\u201cA ride-along shows how the state\u2019s police force has become integrated into federal government\u2019s enforcement efforts; \u2018You\u2019re here illegally.\u2019\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>No state has embraced the Trump administration\u2019s illegal-immigration crackdown more forcefully than Florida. The state earlier this year allocated nearly $300 million for immigration-enforcement work and built an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d that has drawn federal lawsuits challenging its operation. A federal judge in one of the cases ordered on Thursday that much of the facility be dismantled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations by Arian Campo-Flores, Scott Calvert &amp; Elizabeth Lindell (\u201cA ride-along shows how the state\u2019s police force has become integrated into federal government\u2019s enforcement efforts; \u2018You\u2019re here illegally.\u2019\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61766,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765\/revisions\/61766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}