Jacqueline Guzman, deputy mayor of the City of Sunrise, shared a post last week with a video showing federal immigration agents detaining a man on Oakland Park Boulevard and Hiatus Road, with text reading “Truly breaks my heart that families are being torn apart.”
Lori St. John, a real estate agent in Plantation, posted online photos and videos appearing to show federal immigrants agents detaining people in Cooper City. “They are quite literally hunting down people… I saw two people arrested in a matter of minutes.” the post read. “This is horrifying and should concern everyone.”
St. John later posted that her landscaper had been detained by ICE. “I was rattled when I head the news and tears came rolling down my face. Not for me, but for him and his family,” the post read. She later posted an update that her landscaper was being detained in the Natrona County Detention Center in Casper, Wyoming.
The owner of a Broward County-based landscaping business, who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution by federal immigration authorities, told WLRN that he worries his workers — all of whom have legal status — could be targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents…