{"id":104052,"date":"2026-01-03T04:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:49:13","slug":"34-undocumented-immigrants-in-florida-convicted-of-federal-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104052\/","title":{"rendered":"34 undocumented immigrants in Florida convicted of federal crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 34 undocumented immigrants have been convicted of federal crimes in Florida since September 2025, including four people who were found in Leon County.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to U.S. Attorney John Heekin.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office says 31 of the defendants had been previously deported and were convicted for illegal reentry. That includes four people who were found in Leon County on October 8 and 9 of last year.<\/p>\n<p>One defendant was also convicted of false document crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The office says the cases were part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide effort by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the DOJ&#8217;s full press release <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl\/pr\/thirty-four-illegal-aliens-convicted-immigration-false-document-offenses-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 34 undocumented immigrants have been convicted of federal crimes in Florida since September 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[53981,32322,2363,7206,1289,13963,232,234,233,23235,53982,562],"class_list":["post-104052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-convictions","tag-department-of-justice","tag-federal","tag-immigrant","tag-leon-county","tag-october","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-u-s-attorney","tag-undocumented","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}