Florida’s top prosecutor is encouraging spurned exes to turn in their former partners who are in the state illegally — so he can deport them.
“We recently got a tip from someone whose abusive ex overstayed a tourism visa. He is now cued up for deportation,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier tweeted Tuesday.
“If your ex is in this country illegally, please feel free to reach out to our office. We’d be happy to assist,” he offered.
Social-media users jumped at the idea.
“This is expert level savage,” a person posted on X. ”I love it!”
Another user quipped, “How about Mother-In-Laws?”
Someone added, “This is exactly the kind of proactive support victims need.
“No one should have to live in fear thank you for standing up for safety and the rule of law.”
One user said to “expect an increase in the number of reports” to the AG’s office after the announcement.
Florida, with GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis at the helm, has been among the states leading the support for President Trump’s unprecedented deportation efforts since he returned to the White House for his second term in January.
While ICE arrests have more than doubled nationwide in 2025, they’ve tripled in Florida, with 64 arrests per day statewide compared to 20 arrests in 2024, according to a New York Times analysis last month.
That puts Florida second for daily ICE arrests only behind Texas, which averages about 142 per day.
A state-wide, days-long operation in Florida in April dubbed Operation Tidal Wave — the largest of its kind in ICE’s history — netted 1,120 criminal illegal migrants.
Florida has also opened its controversial Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the middle of the Florida Everglades, which was built to help ICE reach its migrant deportation targets.
Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court shot down a new Florida law that would bar illegal immigrants from entering the state after it filed an emergency appeal to have it upheld.
The law, which makes it a misdemeanor offense to enter Florida as an illegal immigrant, was signed by DeSantis in February.
Uthmeier argued that the law was necessary to protect Floridians from “the deluge of illegal immigration,” in his appeal to the Supreme Court, which was supported by 17 other states.
