Florida Highway Patrol punishes Hispanic drivers more than…
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Florida Highway Patrol punishes Hispanic drivers more than white drivers for the same minor traffic offenses
FHP signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE in 2025, reviving a task force model that was disbanded in 2012 after the Department of Justice found it led to widespread racial profiling. Nearly all troopers now have that status.
Eight years of FHP data show those powers were given to an agency that disproportionately punishes Hispanic drivers for minor, nonmoving traffic offenses.
“We’re seeing a huge number of people arrested for immigration reasons without probable cause for the stop — sometimes hundreds in a single weekend,” Miami civil rights attorney Katie Blankenship said. “We assume it’s just racial profiling, but we just don’t know.”
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FHP signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE in 2025, reviving a task force model that was disbanded in 2012 after the Department of Justice found it led to widespread racial profiling. Nearly all troopers now have that status.
Eight years of FHP data show those powers were given to an agency that disproportionately punishes Hispanic drivers for minor, nonmoving traffic offenses.
“We’re seeing a huge number of people arrested for immigration reasons without probable cause for the stop — sometimes hundreds in a single weekend,” Miami civil rights attorney Katie Blankenship said. “We assume it’s just racial profiling, but we just don’t know.”
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