ICE-led Florida operation nets 500 — including illegal aliens accused of murder, child abuse, cartel ties
Five hundred cuffs in four days. A murder charge at 3 a.m. A Taser grabbed from a trooper.
Summary
- Fox News, citing ICE, reports a weeklong Southwest Florida enforcement surge from Aug. 24 through Aug. 27 produced 500 arrests with ICE, Florida Highway Patrol, the Lee County Sheriff's Office, the Florida National Guard, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- Lee County deputies arrested Haitian illegal alien Whycliff Longin, 28, after a just-before-3 a.m. 911 call in Lehigh Acres on Aug. 27. A woman escaped a strangling and barricaded herself; deputies found a second woman dead with blunt-force trauma. The medical examiner called it a homicide. Longin faces second-degree murder, attempted murder, sexual battery, and burglary with battery, held without bond with an ICE detainer.
- ICE said the sweep also took a suspected Mexican cartel member, a Honduran accused of molesting two children, and Guatemalan Noe Lux Castro, 24, who ICE said took a trooper's Taser and tried to use it. Matthew Elliston, ERO Miami interim field office director, said partners removed more than 500 illegal aliens from the streets.
- ICE said Florida has more deputizations for federal immigration enforcement than any other state, with all 67 county sheriffs partnered. Gov. Ron DeSantis called Florida the most proactive state in identifying, apprehending, and deporting illegal immigrants who avoided lawful process and committed crimes.
Commentary
A mill dad still clocks a second shift in Fort Myers and knows a 3 a.m. 911 is supposed to mean a deputy on linoleum, not a neighbor fleeing a bedroom with blunt-force trauma. He did not pay the levy so a murder file could sit while a Taser walked a highway shoulder.
Five hundred. Four days. Sixty-seven sheriffs. One ICE detainer on a second-degree murder charge. The vinyl chair in that Lee County waiting room still remembers the survivor who barricaded a door. The honest household already bought the overtime for the 67.
Look every working father who still locks a Florida porch after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if 500 already came off the street in four days, who still owns the next 3 a.m. bedroom a homicide file tries to leave empty?
Comments
500 arrests. Aug. 24 to 27. Longin held without bond. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so a 911 still meant a hold. A Taser grabbed from a trooper is not a weather report.
67 sheriffs partnered. Elliston: more than 500 removed. Print both.
Allied counties still treat a murder detainer as a breach, not a footnote.
Second-degree murder, sexual battery, ICE detainer. File the three.
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next Lehigh Acres bedroom empty of a load.
A 3 a.m. barricade is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A cartel cuff next to a child-molest file is a second border around every honest porch.
Fox printed 500, Longin, and 67 sheriffs. Argue those nouns.
Hold the 67. Keep the detainers. A grabbed Taser is not a souvenir.
