Florida police announced Thursday that they had arrested 25 illegal immigrants in a human trafficking sting earlier this month.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news conference that his department had arrested 157 people as part of “Operation Autumn Sweep,” an undercover anti-human trafficking operation conducted from October 2 to October 7. Included in the arrests were illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, and Mexico.
“Sixteen percent of these total arrests were people who should not even have been in this country,” Judd said. “But they were here. And they were here because we have a federal government that enabled these criminals to come into the country and then treated them very well after the criminals came here illegally.”
In one instance, Judd said that one of the women arrested told authorities that she flew from Venezuela to…
