A federal judge in Miami has issued a strong rebuke to Florida’s top legal officials, clarifying that her order blocking the state’s controversial immigration law applies to all local law enforcement agencies,

A federal judge in Florida said local police must follow her order not to enforce a new state immigration law despite the state’s attorney general stating otherwise.

A federal judge in Miami has ordered Florida police departments to stop deputizing officers to act as immigration enforcement agents. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s order came as she prepared to issue a preliminary injunction against a new state law that makes it a misdemeanor for undocumented immigrants to enter Florida by eluding immigration agents.

The law, passed during a February special legislative session​, created state crimes for undocumented immigrants who enter or re-enter Florida.

Florida officials are appealing an injunction that freezes a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people who came to the country illegally to enter Florida if they elude immigration authorities

An irritated federal judge said Tuesday that she found it “problematic” and offensive that Florida’s attorney general called illegitimate and unlawful her order temporarily blocking an immigration law that led to the arrest of a U.

Immigration is on the mind of a Florida judge this week after AG James Uthmeier filed a motion to block her from halting enforcement of an immigration law.