{"id":219136,"date":"2026-04-05T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:39:11","slug":"jax-hispanic-outreach-coordinator-moves-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219136\/","title":{"rendered":"Jax Hispanic outreach coordinator moves on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organizational news was announced on Good Friday.<\/p>\n

A key staffer for Jacksonville Mayor\u00a0Donna Deegan<\/a> is leaving city government this month.<\/p>\n

Yanira Cardona<\/a> will be taking a role with the Phoenix Arts Innovation District<\/a>, wrapping a tenure as the city\u2019s Hispanic Outreach Coordinator in which she stoked statewide controversy<\/a> by going on social media and telling people where immigration enforcement was happening from her office at City Hall.<\/p>\n

Put on administrative leave briefly, she was reinstated, which appears to have afforded her time to effectuate her exit.<\/p>\n

Deegan said back in January that General Counsel Michael Fackler said Cardona\u2019s comments, put on Instagram during business hours and apparently broadcast live from City Hall, were legal. That runs counter to the interpretation by Attorney General James Uthmeier, who said \u201cthis is illegal and needs to be seriously addressed!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cICE is out and about,\u201d Cardona said in the video. \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

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Deegan said back then Cardona was speaking out of \u201ccompassion\u201d to address \u201can immigrant population that is hurting\u201d because of immigration enforcement,\u201d and expressed frustration that she had to respond with an \u201cinordinate amount of energy\u201d and provide \u201cgrist for the political mill\u201d because Cardona\u2019s comments were used as a \u201cpolitical whipping post.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizational news was announced on Good Friday. A key staffer for Jacksonville Mayor\u00a0Donna Deegan is leaving city government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,59539],"class_list":["post-219136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-yanira-cardona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219136","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=219136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219136\/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=219136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}