The Swamp creatures in Washington, D.C. spent four years under Biden turning America into a playground for criminal aliens.
But Florida just showed the rest of the country what real law enforcement looks like.
And ICE delivered a devastating blow to criminal aliens that has Florida communities celebrating.
Trump’s ICE unleashes hell on criminal aliens terrorizing Florida
President Trump promised to restore law and order to America’s streets – and he’s delivering in spectacular fashion.
ICE agents, working alongside Florida law enforcement partners, just completed a weeklong operation that swept more than 400 criminal aliens off the streets of Central Florida.
These weren’t your typical immigration violations.
The criminals rounded up in this September 22-26 operation had rap sheets that read like a horror movie: child molestation, domestic violence, hit-and-run crashes, drug dealing, and prostitution.¹
Look at just a few of the degenerates ICE finally caught up with.
Walther Ramiro Hernandez-Ortiz, an 18-year-old from Honduras, was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior, battery, and molesting a victim under 12 years old.
Juan Carlos Hernandez-Reyes, a 48-year-old from Mexico, had built quite the criminal empire – domestic violence, driving under the influence, battery, disorderly conduct, and prostitution.
Edgar Rivera-Salinas, a 38-year-old Mexican national who’d already been deported once, came back to continue his crime spree with vehicle theft, marijuana possession, and flight to avoid prosecution.²
Florida leads the nation in getting tough on criminal aliens
Here’s what the mainstream media won’t tell you about this operation.
Florida didn’t just stumble into this success – Governor Ron DeSantis has been building the infrastructure to make it happen.
The state now leads the entire nation with 327 partnerships under the 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement to perform federal immigration duties.
That’s a staggering 577% increase since President Trump took office on January 20.³
Compare that to the sanctuary state disasters like California, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island – where local cops are actually prohibited from helping ICE remove dangerous criminals.
The Florida Highway Patrol, Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, and even the Florida National Guard all pitched in to make this operation a success.
Sheriff Grady Judd from Polk County and Sheriff Wayne Ivey from Brevard County worked hand-in-hand with ICE to identify the biggest threats to their communities.
The criminal aliens’ reign of terror is over
"The days of allowing illegal aliens to disregard our laws and pose a threat to our communities, our roads, and our economy are over," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Miami Field Office Director Garrett Ripa announced.⁴
And he wasn’t kidding around.
The criminals they nabbed weren’t just immigration violators – they were predators who’d been wreaking havoc in Florida neighborhoods for years.
Take Yoni Mendez-Lopez, a 29-year-old from Mexico who thought he could outrun the law.
His rap sheet included driving while impaired, resisting officers, battery on a law enforcement officer, assault on a law enforcement officer, and attempting to flee police with lights and sirens blazing.
Or consider Ubaldino Hernandez-Hernandez, a 41-year-old from Mexico whose specialty was hit-and-run crashes, reckless driving, and operating vehicles without a license – over and over again.
These weren’t people who made a simple mistake.
These were career criminals who viewed American communities as their personal hunting grounds.
What this means for the rest of America
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called this operation "a blueprint nationwide" – and she’s absolutely right.⁵
For four years under Biden, criminal aliens knew they could commit crimes with impunity because Democrat politicians cared more about virtue signaling than protecting American families.
Those days are over.
President Trump’s approach is simple: identify the worst criminal aliens, arrest them, and ship them back where they came from.
The results speak for themselves.
Four hundred dangerous criminals off the streets in one week, all because Florida decided to work with federal immigration authorities instead of against them.
"We are calling on more state and local law enforcement across the U.S. to join us in the fight to remove the worst of the worst from American communities," McLaughlin declared.
The question is whether other governors will follow Florida’s lead or continue protecting criminal aliens at the expense of law-abiding citizens.
This operation proves that when federal, state, and local authorities work together – instead of playing political games – they can make communities dramatically safer almost overnight.
The choice is clear: you can be like Florida and prioritize public safety, or you can be like California and keep rolling out the red carpet for criminals.
President Trump is giving every state the tools they need to clean up their communities.
Now it’s time to see who has the backbone to use them.
¹ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "ICE Miami, 287(g) partners arrest 400 criminal aliens during Central Florida operations," Department of Homeland Security, September 30, 2025.
² I- ⁵ Ibid.
