Editor’s Note: The Tally is a new Suncoast Searchlight series that examines issues affecting communities across the Suncoast and Florida through data.

SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB ) - When Eddy Macario, a Bradenton father and house painter, was arrested for driving without a license last spring, he spent a month in Charlotte County jail before being sentenced and fined. But instead of walking free afterward, he was transferred to custody of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Macario’s wife, who has liver cirrhosis and is in need of an organ transplant, struggled to pay the bills with the family breadwinner absent for months. Macario was released from ICE detention in early October, according to WSLR.

Oscar Romero Santos, another Bradenton father and a business owner, wasn’t as l

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