{"id":43727,"date":"2025-11-12T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:37:08","slug":"operation-dirtbag-sees-over-150-illegal-migrant-sexual-predators-nabbed-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43727\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Operation Dirtbag&#8217; sees over 150 illegal migrant sexual predators nabbed in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/08\/us-news\/no-illegal-migrants-were-released-into-us-during-last-six-months-trump-declares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">illegal migrant<\/a> sexual predators have been nabbed in Florida in a massive operation dubbed \u201cOperation Dirtbag,\u201d Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The sex offenders were among more than 230 illegals recently rounded up in the Sunshine State for a variety of crimes, including numerous drug offenses and even murder, the DHS said.<\/p>\n<p>The pervs had sick rap sheets \u2014 including prior convictions for child molestation and sexual assault, according to DHS.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that \u201cOperation Dirtbag\u201d nabbed over 150 illegal migrant sexual predators. Fox &amp; Friends<\/p>\n<p>Detainees are seen at Krome Detention Center run by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, Florida. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The sex pests had sick rap sheets \u2014 including prior convictions for child molestation and sexual assault, according to DHS. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis operation was called Operation Criminal Return. I call it Operation Dirtbag because these individuals were sex offenders, but not just sex offenders, they targeted children,\u201d Noem told Fox News\u2019 \u201cFox &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese 150 individuals will be gone off of our streets. Our kids will be safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noem said the blitz with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/03\/us-news\/florida-will-eliminate-immoral-childhood-vaccine-mandates-people-have-a-right-to-make-their-own-decisions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> was a model she wanted to replicate across the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals should have never been in our country to begin with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they were sexual deviants and perverts, and now we\u2019ve gotten them off of our streets, it\u2019s remarkable. And we need to do more of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 150 illegal migrant sexual predators have been nabbed in Florida in a massive operation dubbed \u201cOperation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6204,28,30,29,28714,17869,4278],"class_list":["post-43727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-migrants","tag-sexual-predators","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727","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=43727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}