{"id":53517,"date":"2025-01-17T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T01:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=53517"},"modified":"2025-01-17T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T01:44:46","slug":"grady-judd-says-polk-county-deputies-will-not-knock-on-doors-to-round-up-undocumented-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/01\/17\/grady-judd-says-polk-county-deputies-will-not-knock-on-doors-to-round-up-undocumented-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Grady Judd says Polk County deputies will not knock on doors to round up undocumented residents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Incoming President Donald Trump\u2019s pledge to direct mass deportations raises the question of how law-enforcement agencies might help carry out his plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the federal government is responsible for enforcing immigration laws, some law-enforcement leaders across the country have signaled their eagerness to assist in rounding up undocumented immigrants to be deported.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is an outspoken supporter of Trump, and he regularly warns about what he considers the threats presented by \u201cillegal aliens\u201d and what he calls an open southern border. But Judd said that the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office will not change its policies on enforcing immigration laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After stating that he thinks immigration was the second most significant issue in the 2024 presidential election, behind inflation, Judd said he does not foresee any shift in his agency\u2019s approach toward those living in Polk County without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Sheriff\u2019s Office has long cooperated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on holding suspects under a section of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. That law authorizes local law enforcement to perform specified immigration officer functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur procedure will be the same that it’s always been,\u201d Judd said. \u201cWhen we arrest somebody and take them into custody, we turn that data over, and we do it once every 24 hours, to ICE \u2014 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ICE responds with a request to detain a suspect, PCSO holds the person for as long as the law permits, Judd said \u2014 48 hours after the agency finishes processing the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe difference is when Trump was in before, they came and got more,\u201d Judd said. \u201cWhen Biden was in office, the numbers dwindled immensely \u2014 because, quite frankly, in my estimation, the Biden administration thought more of the illegal criminal aliens than he thought of the law-abiding citizens of this country. So I’ve been more than frustrated with that the entire time Biden was in office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judd, though, drew a distinction between his agency\u2019s holding suspects after arrest for ICE agents and their becoming a proactive element of immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd so, unless, unless the president comes down with other edicts that I’m not aware of, contrary to what I call the conspiracy theorists and the troublemakers, we absolutely, unequivocally are not going to go through the community knocking on doors of people that aren’t here legally,\u201d Judd said. \u201cThat is a federal issue. But if you’re here illegally and committing crimes, we’re going to hold you accountable for that, put you in jail and notify ICE, and what they do is up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PCSO spokesperson Scott Wilder said Thursday that Judd expects to continue the department\u2019s approach of focusing on cooperation with ICE after arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are no changes from what (Judd previously said) \u2014 we don\u2019t anticipate any changes to our policy unless changes need to be made based on new state or federal law,\u201d Wilder said by email. \u201cHe said we will continue to report all foreign-born arrestees that come to us in the county jail to ICE. Our anticipation is that new federal policies will likely change to accept custody of all those arrestees, which the Sheriff would enthusiastically support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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A spokeswoman for the Lakeland Police Department said that Chief Sam Taylor had no comment on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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