A Haitian asylum seeker broke into a Florida home before daylight and beat a woman to death.
He was in America seeking protection.
ICE just made sure this Florida asylum seeker who killed a woman at 3AM faces justice.
The Murder That Explains Everything
Whycliff Longin, 28, was living in the United States on an asylum claim when he allegedly forced his way into a home in Lehigh Acres on August 27.
Just before 3 a.m., deputies responded to a 911 call from a woman who had been strangled, fought her way free, and barricaded herself in a bedroom.
Officers arrived to find Longin fleeing a neighboring residence.
Inside, a second woman was dead – blunt force trauma.
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The medical examiner ruled it homicide.
Longin now faces second-degree murder, attempted murder, sexual battery, and burglary with battery.
He is held without bond with an ICE detainer.
The woman in that bedroom deserved a state that takes this seriously.
Florida is that state.
500 Arrests. Four Days. Every Sheriff in the State.
Longin was caught as part of an ICE-led operation in Southwest Florida that ran August 24 through August 27 – and he was far from the only predator removed from Florida streets.
ICE teamed up with the 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.
Five hundred arrests in four days.
Among those caught: a suspected Mexican cartel member, a Honduran accused of molesting two children, and a Guatemalan named Noe Lux Castro who grabbed a trooper's Taser mid-arrest and tried to use it against the officer.
The rest of the list reads like a criminal record that never should have existed on American soil.
Olmen Noel Vargas-Mendoza – illegal reentry three times, domestic violence history.
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Rigoberto Vargas-Resendiz – illegal reentry three times, deportation order issued in 2011, still here in 2026.
Hermenegildo Andres-Juan – reentered after deportation, DUI, resisting arrest, hit-and-run, entered the country January 10, 2025.
Armando Coc-Yat – final removal order issued November 2021, still walking Florida streets until ICE showed up.
"Those who choose to knowingly flaunt this nation's immigration laws will face the consequences," said Matthew Elliston, ERO Miami interim field office director, adding they would be given "a one-way ticket home."
Why Florida Gets Results While Other States Make Excuses
This operation didn't happen by accident.
Florida has 325 active 287(g) agreements between state and local law enforcement and ICE – a 577% increase since President Trump took office in January 2025.
All 67 county sheriffs are partners.
Every county jail. Every highway patrol trooper.
Every fish and wildlife officer.
Florida is the only state in America where every county has signed on to the Task Force Model – meaning officers can make immigration arrests in the field, not just inside jails.
The Miami ICE field office – which covers Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands – is now averaging roughly 120 arrests per day, leading the entire nation.
That's not a coincidence.
That's what happens when a governor decides to actually do something.
"Florida continues to demonstrate how to turn important policy into meaningful action," Gov. Ron DeSantis said after the operation results were announced. "We will not sit idly by and allow Floridians to be victimized."
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While Democrat-run cities spent the last year debating whether local police should cooperate with ICE at all, DeSantis was building the most aggressive state-level immigration enforcement infrastructure in American history.
The result: murderers, cartel members, child molesters, and serial reentrants – gone.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said it plainly: "My prayers are with the family of the woman who tragically lost her life, and with the survivor who showed incredible strength in fighting to live."
Every governor who refuses to do what Florida did owns what happens next in their state.
The rest of the country is watching.
Sources:
- Natasha Holt, "ICE-led Florida operation nets 500 — including illegal aliens accused of murder, child abuse, cartel ties," Fox News, September 20, 2026.
- "Florida law enforcement leading with ICE 287(g) partnerships," The Capitolist, February 11, 2026.
- "Florida takes lead in ICE arrests this year," CBS12/South Florida Sun Sentinel, March 2026.
- "DeSantis expands immigration crackdown with statewide ICE partnership," CBS News Miami, 2025.
