Records Show Florida Agriculture Agency’s Role in Immigration Enforcement

From June to December 2025, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services took 87 people into custody and transported 434 to immigration detention sites, according to records obtained by American Oversight. As of October 2025, 173 agricultural officers held 287(g) training and credentials and 50 had neither, despite Commissioner Wilton Simpson’s July 2025 claim that all sworn officers were certified. The state uses its 23 agricultural inspection stations as immigration checkpoints.