{"id":201802,"date":"2026-03-22T23:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:28:06","slug":"florida-takes-lead-in-ice-arrests-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201802\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida takes lead in ICE arrests this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Florida has become the country\u2019s busiest hub for immigration arrests this year, with ICE agents in the Miami Field Office \u2014 which oversees Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands \u2014 logging more detentions than any other region in the nation according to our news partners at the South Florida Sun Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures reported by the New York Times, agents under the Miami office are averaging about 120 arrests a day, totaling nearly 9,900 arrests as of March 10. That pace puts Florida well ahead of other regions experiencing federal \u201csurge\u201d operations, including Minnesota, where a high-profile enforcement push drew national scrutiny after two U.S. citizens were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Florida has become the country\u2019s busiest hub for immigration arrests this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-201802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201802","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=201802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}