During the morning of Thursday, May 29, at least 90 workers They were arrested by federal agents of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICEfor its acronym in English), who collaborated with the road patrol of Florida In a construction zone very close to the State University of Tallahassee.
According to He New Herald, A morning newspaper of Miami that is distributed in the American territory, the arrests of the undocumented immigrants In Florida they occurred in broad daylight, “before the look powerless of family, friends and co -workers ”, who could not avoid the arrest of foreigners.
With handcuffed hands and with the mood for the soilsall the detainees were transferred to a white bus that had bars in the windows, where they had to wait more than two hours until they were subsequently sent to a federal installation whose location was not revealed by the authorities migratory of the USA.
While waiting for the transfer, some workers who were arrested on the bus managed to talk to the American press. Among them were Mexican, Nicaraguan, Hondurans and Venezuelan immigrants, who were arrested in the largest raid in the greatest raid in the Northern Florida Under the administration of Donald Trump.
The testimonies of the raid in Tallahassee
From the white bus, a migrant born in the city of Mexicowhich was identified as Gerónimodeclared that immigrants are treated as criminals: “I regret that the work that undocumented energy To our countries of origin, ”he added.
In addition, Leonardo García, who works in the construction work College Townwhere the migratory raid of Tallahassee, Florida, observed how federal and state agents stopped their unclean undocumented immigrant: “The police surrounded the entire building and began to force the facilities,” he added.
“When they managed to enter the enclosure, the officers began asking all the workers to show their papers. I saw how some migrants began to run, trying to escape from the authorities, but the agents only threw them to the ground as if nothing. The They handcuffed And surely they will be Deported”Leonardo said.
For their part, ICE officials reported that the raid was carried out as part of an investigation within the Tallahassee region, because the authorities went to the construction zone with “multiple orders of raid”However, it is not yet clear if all the detainees had been previously identified.
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– Jason Delgado (@jandelgadox) May 29, 2025
According to The Miami Herald, A newspaper established in Florida, one of the detainees was identified as Faustino Macedo41 years. The American media managed to contact his wife, Amanda Parrishwho indicated that his spouse had been in the same company for more than 14 years and did not have criminal record.
“This is what I would not have happened. They are not just undocumented immigrants, they have family In the United States, ”said Parrish between tearswho witnessed her husband’s arrest from the other side of a fence, so she publicly requested some response to the company for which Macedo worked, New South Systems.
Thursday’s Raid in Tallahassee is Perhaps The Largest in North Florida Yet the Trump and Desantis Administration.
LEONARDO GARCIA WORKED AT THE CONSTRUCTION IN COLLEGE TOWN, AND WATCHED AS FEDERAL AND STATE POLICE APPREHENED HIS UNCLE.
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– Jason Delgado (@jandelgadox) May 29, 2025
