Feds: 16 indicted for illegal reentry after sweeping Florida immigration crackdown

Sixteen people from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua have been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States after they were previously deported.

Fifteen men and one woman between the ages of 22 and 48 were detained in the Florida Panhandle, including Leon, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Madison and Escambia counties, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida.

Six of the 16 were detained in Tallahassee at a massive immigration raid at a local construction site on May 29, according to court records…

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