Program execution hangs on deleting rows shown in an AutoFilter

A part of my code involves using an AutoFilter to pull up rows that need to be deleted. The criteria is 'ZZZ.' After filtering for 'ZZZ' I want to select all the rows and delete them.

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I did a step into with breakpoints and I determined that the execution on the line above is where the program hangs. I say hangs, because when I first coded this, I didn't have this problem. What could be causing this? This is frustrating because I know my program can run faster.

With autofilter, you want to delete all the visible rows which you can do by using Specialcells. Here is an example, with the column A with the autofilter (starting from A2):

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