{"id":118455,"date":"2026-01-14T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:25:06","slug":"jacksonville-official-warns-instagram-followers-about-ice-arrests-advises-on-how-to-avoid-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118455\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville official warns Instagram followers about ICE arrests, advises on how to avoid &#8216;targeting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are making the rounds in Jacksonville, and a city official is advising her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTfzFozkS98\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> followers on how to avoid arrest and how to react if they are taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTfzFozkS98\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Yanira Cardona<\/a>, the city\u2019s Hispanic Outreach Coordinator appointed by Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/773237-donna-deegan-committee-nears-1-5-million-raised-ahead-of-re-election-bid-for-jacksonville-mayor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Donna Deegan<\/a>, says people who are taken in should \u201ccomply,\u201d but they should have a plan because \u201cthey\u2019re out in Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are living in very difficult times, but my best advice is: 1. Have a plan in place with your lawyers. 2. Give someone you trust power of attorney for your business and your children. 3. If you are stopped by law enforcement, please cooperate and follow their instructions\/orders,\u201d she wrote Wednesday, with a video explaining where people should be most careful.<\/p>\n<p>The video was posted during business hours on a weekday and appears to be filmed in an office in City Hall, though the barking of a dog at one point suggests that may not be the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cICE is out and about,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are doing speed traps. They are, they\u2019ve been seen on Emerson, on Beach Boulevard, on Atlantic and on the highway. They are targeting, literally, they\u2019re targeting any lawn care companies, any AC company construction vans. They\u2019re literally stopping them just to make sure that they have their paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/votekirwan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-760769 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KIR25002-Web-Ad-3-e1760498324308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI wish I could do more, and I wish I could say more. But this is the best I could do,\u201d Cardona added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have reached out to the Mayor\u2019s Office to see if this video was officially sanctioned, if it was filmed on city property with public resources, and if Cardona\u2019s post on her private Instagram account reflects the city\u2019s official position.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are making the rounds in Jacksonville, and a city official is advising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5890,26950,116,118,117,3806,59539],"class_list":["post-118455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-donna-deegan","tag-instagram","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-yanira-cardona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}