ICE accelerating removal operations by adding 500 more beds in Florida jail

As the Trump medication continues to ramp up detainment and deportation operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) volition person 500 much beds for detainees acknowledgment to a caller concern with the Glades County Sheriff's Office successful Florida. 

"The Glades County Jail halfway volition service arsenic a staging country and let greater capableness to code our migration enforcement mission," acting Miami ICE Field Office Director Juan Agudelo said successful a statement. "The cardinal determination streamlines logistics and helps facilitate the timely processing of amerciable aliens successful our custody that are taxable to arrest, detention and removal from our country."

The determination is simply a reinstatement of a erstwhile intergovernmental work statement with the Glades County Board of County Commissioners, according to ICE. 

"The installation volition grow ICE’s detention capableness successful Florida, enhancing the agency’s quality to negociate the region’s increasing enforcement and removal operations," the connection said. 

ICE is conducting flights to region amerciable immigrants from the U.S. and backmost to their location countries. (ICE Seattle)

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The announcement was made astatine the aforesaid clip that The Miami Herald reported that the Florida Highway Patrol had been directed by authorities authorities to apprehension and jailhouse amerciable immigrants for offenses similar driving without a valid license. 

In February, Gov. Ron DeSantis partnered with ICE, signing a memorandum that allowed the Florida Highway Patrol to workout migration power. 

"Governor DeSantis understands the relation of instrumentality enforcement and wants to supply the strongest migration instrumentality possible, empowering instrumentality enforcement to get to enactment and deport amerciable aliens residing successful the state," Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner said successful a connection astatine the time. 

Venezuelan migrants locomotion pursuing their accomplishment connected a formation aft being deported from the United States, successful Caracas, Venezuela, March 24, 2025. (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

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"We indispensable person the strongest instrumentality successful the federation connected migration enforcement that volition warrant authorities and section deportation assistance, extremity drawback and release, destruct magnets specified arsenic remittances and follow supporting policies that volition support Floridians," DeSantis said upon the announcement. 

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Glades County Sheriff's Office.

Fox News' Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.