“Operation Tidal Wave,” four days of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids working with Florida’s local law enforcement in a “first of its kind” arrangement, has netted nearly 800 illegals for arrest.

“I think the main reason why this operation is significant is because it’s the first of its kind,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told ABC News. “It’s one that not only we’ve been doing what we have, but we have surged all our federal partners together along with Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement [and] Removal Operations, which are all the enforcement arms of ICE, but we’re also using all our 287 (g) partners in the state of Florida.

“We’re using state, local, and county law enforcement agencies to assist us in our operations.”

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