Federal officials launched a large-scale operation with Florida police this week to find and deport some 800 undocumented immigrants, according to a copy of the plans reviewed by the Miami Herald.

The sting, nicknamed Operation Tidal Wave and led by the Department of Homeland Security with the help of other federal agencies, is being conducted in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and the cities of Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Stuart, Tallahassee, and Fort Myers.

The records say authorities were trying to detain “criminal individuals or immigration violators” that have final deportation orders.

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