{"id":149204,"date":"2026-02-09T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:53:50","slug":"donna-deegan-slams-james-uthmeier-fishing-expedition-into-jacksonvilles-approach-to-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149204\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Deegan slams James Uthmeier ‘fishing expedition’ into Jacksonville’s approach to illegal immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan<\/a> is condemning a subpoena from Attorney General\u00a0James Uthmeier\u2019s<\/a> Office alleging potentially illegal actions from the city\u2019s Hispanic Outreach Coordinator.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy statement, the first-term Democrat challenged the legitimacy of a probe into Yanira Cardona\u2019s Instagram video warning locals where immigration enforcement operations were happening this month.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Deegan said Uthmeier, the former Chief of Staff for Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a> appointed to the position last year, was playing politics at the expense of real concerns for people in this state.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of addressing the pocketbook concerns of Floridians \u2014 including property insurance, housing costs, and healthcare \u2014 the Attorney General is once again on a hyper-partisan fishing expedition as we enter election season,\u201d Deegan\u2019s Office commented.<\/p>\n

The subpoena seeks all records produced by, or sent to, Cardona between Jan. 2 and Jan. 16, including those on city-provided devices and personal devices used to conduct city business. Cardona, the city\u2019s Director of Hispanic Outreach, has conflated the two at times, featuring her business card on her personal Instagram.<\/p>\n

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The city\u2019s Custodian of Records is set to appear at the AG\u2019s Jacksonville office on Feb. 20 to testify on this matter, which the city\u2019s General Counsel\u00a0Michael Fackler\u00a0said wasn\u2019t a violation of law.<\/p>\n

Deegan\u2019s Office said the city \u201chas received and will fully cooperate with a subpoena received from the Office of Statewide Prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are confident that a review of the facts will show the administration acted lawfully, as we always do,\u201d the Monday afternoon statement continued.<\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s Office goes on to say that it\u2019s not involved in immigration enforcement at all, as \u201cthe Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office has a duly elected Sheriff and maintains the sole responsibility for coordination and interaction with state and federal immigration agencies. The mayor does not hold any authority over those activities under our consolidated government.\u201d<\/p>\n

That statement is arguably not responsive to Uthmeier\u2019s allegation. The AG said the Office of Statewide Prosecution was probing a \u201ccoordinated effort amongst officials \u2026 to thwart investigative efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf there\u2019s evidence that her administration coordinated to impede immigration enforcement and harbor criminal aliens, we will hold them accountable,\u201d Uthmeier posted on X ahead of a press conference in Green Cove Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan is condemning a subpoena from Attorney General\u00a0James Uthmeier\u2019s Office alleging potentially illegal actions from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31877,5890,47327,8236,1841,116,118,117,412,59539],"class_list":["post-149204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-attorney-general-james-uthmeier","tag-donna-deegan","tag-florida-office-of-statewide-prosecution","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-ron-desantis","tag-yanira-cardona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149204","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=149204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}