Florida’s Republican sheriffs want President Donald Trump to end mass deportations of undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes, a striking shift from law enforcement in the nation’s most aggressive anti-undocumented immigration state.
“While Congress sits on their hands and does nothing about this, we are on the ground floor with this day in and day out — looking in the eyes of these folks that, yes, came here inappropriately. But some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday during a State Immigration Enforcement Council meeting.
He plans to draft a letter to Trump, the U.S. House Speaker, and the Senate majority leader urging better guidelines over which undocumented immigrants should be targeted for deportation.
Judd’s comments are remarkable. A leading conservative, he’s also chair of the four-sheriff and four-police chief council tapped by Republican leaders last year to shape hardline immigration policy. He’s also a favorite of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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At least six of the eight council members echoed Judd during Monday’s Microsoft Teams meeting — a seventh, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, was not present for the call. One said the state has cast “too wide of a net;” another urged Judd to write to Congress, and a third offered harsh criticisms of ICE tactics.
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The sheriffs agreed Monday that they would jointly draft and edit the letter to Trump and Congress, imploring the administration to stop deporting undocumented immigrants without a criminal record.
Instead, Judd suggested, they could look at civil fines, demand they learn English, or disallow them from living off the taxpayer dime.
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