TALLAHASSEE — Federal immigration agents descended on a construction site for new apartment buildings near Florida State University on Thursday morning, rounding up dozens of workers as distraught family members, friends and colleagues watched them be questioned and detained by authorities.

At least 30 people were arrested, zip-tied and held inside a white bus with barred windows, waiting to be transported to an unknown facility. Some of the detained workers spoke to reporters through the grated windows, identifying themselves as Nicaraguans, Venezuelans , Mexicans and Hondurans. One of the detainees said he had permanent residency in the United States.

“They treat us like criminals,” a detained worker from Mexico who identified himself as Geronimo told a Miami Herald reporter in Spani

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