A joint federal, state, and local immigration enforcement operation dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave” led to the arrest of nearly 800 illegal aliens across Florida over the last few days.
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According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the law enforcement effort targeted people in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and the cities of Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Stuart, Tallahassee, and Fort Myers.
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Of the 800 arrested, 275 were arrested with final orders of removal, meaning that an immigration judge had already ordered them out of the country.
“This is one of the first large-scale missions we’ve done like this ever,” ICE director Todd Lyons told ABC News.
“We brought a ‘whole the government’ approach with cooperative jurisdictions that want to help ICE secure communities in neighborhoods and remove public safety
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