Broward Schools on Lockdown Due to Immigration Operation Involving Landscapers

ICE officers, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol perform enforcement operations in Delray Beach.

At least two Broward County schools were placed on lockdown Wednesday morning amid a federal immigration operation apparently involving workers from a local landscaping company.

St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic School and Archbishop McCarthy High School — both Catholic schools in Southwest Ranches — were locked down around 9 a.m. “due to police activity in the nearby area,” according to the Archdiocese of Miami. The Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) confirmed in a Facebook post that law enforcement officials were in the area following a “traffic stop that resulted in a federal immigration matter.”…

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