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Florida immigration arrests have quietly surged, with state and local agencies at the forefront
Trump's immigration crackdown has met with fierce resistance in Democratic-led sanctuary cities, where police are forbidden from assisting and many locals view the masked federal agents as an invading force. That hasn't been the case in Republican-led Florida, though, where abou…
MIAMI — On a late March afternoon, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer pulled up to a Guatemalan couple walking their dog in a park in the affluent beachside community of Bonita Springs, along the Gulf Coast. From his car, he asked to see the husband's identification and then ordered them to head toward the park exit, according to the wife.
When they arrived in the parking lot, the officer arrested the husband on a bogus charge, said his wife, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity for her and her 48-year-old husband because she didn't want to risk being detained as …
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