More than 100 migrants arrested at construction site in Florida

Miami (U.S.), (EFE) – Authorities from the United States and Florida arrested more than 100 migrants from Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras this Thursday at a construction site in Tallahassee, the Florida capital. This marks the second such raid in less than a month.

Activists from organizations such as the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) denounced the raid on social media, where videos of migrants being surprised by agents and a woman crying as her husband was taken away quickly went viral.

The Tampa office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), posted on social media that it led the arrest of “more than 100 illegal immigrants, some previously deported and others with criminal records, at a major construction site.”

The operation stood out due to the involvement of the Florida Highway Patrol, which Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has ordered to carry out immigration raids in cooperation with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“In Florida, we are leading the effort to help the Trump Administration enforce federal immigration law. Today’s operation took place right here in Tallahassee. Detain. Deport. Deliver results for the American people,” posted Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on X.

Further official details of the operation are still pending. It took place at a construction site for apartments near Florida State University, according to local media. An image shared by HSI shows agents forcing the migrants to line up in a long queue.

The operation highlights the growing number of immigration raids targeting construction workers in Florida. Just two weeks ago, authorities arrested more than two dozen undocumented migrants in The Villages, a small city in the state.

Florida also recently witnessed a record-breaking operation for ICE, with more than 1,100 arrests in one week—marking the largest number of detentions in a single state in the agency’s history