Two dozen families are being evicted from a Dade City apartment complex because Housing Authority officials say they were undocumented.

Ismael Alvarez and his family were one of those families who are being kicked out of the Cypress Farms Apartments in Dade city.

“They told us that we needed to vacate the apartment, because they received an order and that’s why we are moving out, following their instructions,” he said.

Alvarez says they got an eviction notice a few days ago and now they’re scrambling to find a new place to live. It’s forcing them to take whatever they can get.

“We are three families and we are going to live in a trailer while we find a place,” he said.

Housing Authority officials said they were contacted by the USDA about claims that a resident at the complex was using a counterfeit social security number. That social security number was also being used by nine other people in the country.  That tip lead to an all-out investigation.

Officials said Friday that their investigation revealed there were people living in 24 different units in this community that had at least one family member twho was undocumented. Now all of those families have to find somewhere else to stay because they were all given an eviction notice.

Officials say the people who were evicted all gave false information but Alvarez says all he was asked to provide was an ID to move in. Claudia Guzman had a similar story.

“They only required an ID, my husband’s and mine, our Honduran passports,” she said.

Guzman was also forced out of her home for not being a citizen and living in government housing. The mother of three young boys, who are citizens, says this highlights a larger issue.

“We want the immigration reform, if they deport us what is going to happen to the future of our children? We left our country, Honduras, to give a better future to our children. And what if something worse happens? We don’t know,” Guzman said.

It’s an uncertain future 24 other families are also facing.

No word yet on if any criminal charges will be filed against the undocumented residents. Most of the people evicted have until March 12 to move out.