The Florida Highway Patrol could be seen this week teaming up with federal immigration enforcers to stop and question people in the landscaping business, pulling over their trucks along busy Broward County highways.

FHP is part of a state-federal partnership that the state is mandating local jails and law enforcement to participate in. And NBC6 Investigates found evidence in newly released data that a much larger share of those recently snagged in the so-called 287(g) efforts are people with no criminal history.

Social media was flooded this week with images of men working in the landscaping business being handcuffed after FHP troopers pulled over their trucks, and then federal agents moved in to take some away.

Among them was the husband of a woman who spoke exclusively to Telemundo.

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