Chaos broke out at a Miami-Dade County Commission meeting on Thursday when an opponent of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement partnership with county jails was hauled out of the chambers after objecting to the board’s refusal to vote on the contract.

County sheriff’s deputies pulled out a 36-year-old woman who defied an officer’s request not to speak while the commission’s chair, Anthony Rodriguez, warned that if anyone decided to speak at Thursday’s hearing, future public comments on the topic would be prohibited. Camila Ramos collided with a sign as many deputies hauled her from the chambers and pushed to the floor in the lobby before being taken to a commission office. During a tumultuous encounter outside the second-floor chambers of the Stephen P. Clark Center in downtown Miami, other minor scuffles with police enforcement erupted.

The incidents were the most tumultuous in the commission chambers since the board voted in 2017, during the opening weeks of the Trump administration, to prolong jail sentence for local offenders wanted by ICE for deportation.

Earlier this year, Miami-Dade County approved a formal cooperation agreement with ICE for its county jail system. These agreements are now required under Florida law. The item on Thursday’s agenda was a change to that agreement that contained payment provisions for local inmates held in Miami-Dade jails when they are deported. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, recommended approval.

However, prior to the scheduled vote, Rodriguez added a last-minute item to keep the contentious matter off the commission’s agenda. His legislation gave Levine Cava the authority to sign any arrangement with Florida or the federal government, and it retroactively took effect in March, when he signed the contested ICE jail agreement. The Rodriguez item was passed without giving the public an opportunity to engage commissioners.

This laid the groundwork for commissioners to avoid voting on the ICE agreement on the agenda.

Commissioner Oliver Gilbert moved to postpone the vote indefinitely because Levine Cava had already signed the agreement. Rodriguez agreed and informed the audience that they may still speak on the topic, but if it came up for a vote again, there would be no second chance.