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The Trump administration hopes to work with local law enforcement as it tries to reach its goals for mass deportation.
May 1, 2025Updated 10:43 a.m. ET
A six-day immigration sweep in Florida in April resulted in the arrests of more than 1,100 people, the Trump administration said on Thursday as it increasingly relies on local law enforcement to help speed deportations.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers worked alongside the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the state’s Department of Corrections as they swept through communities.
ICE said the operation was one of the biggest in a single state in the agency’s history.
“This is a model that’s going to be implemented throughout the country, allowing us to have a force multiplier that can come to the table,” said Madison D. Sheahan, the deputy director of ICE.
ICE officials said the operation targeted people with deportation orders and those with criminal histories. More than 60 percent of those picked up had either an arrest or a conviction, the agency said.
Since January, the Trump administration has expanded the number of agreements it has with the local authorities to help with immigration enforcement. The Florida agencies involved in the six-day operation had signed such agreements as well. ICE has signed more than 400 agreements with local law enforcement since January, the agency said.
Those agreements are part of the 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement to collaborate with federal officials on immigration enforcement.
