Joe Biden’s border crisis and the millions of illegal aliens he allowed to enter the country emerged as a top issue in November.
Americans gave Donald Trump a mandate to secure the border and deport illegal aliens.
And a Florida sheriff hit Donald Trump with one request that put a smile on Ron DeSantis’ face.
Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border the moment he took the oath of office on January 20.
He authorized the military to deploy “as many units or members of the Armed Forces, including the Ready Reserve and the National Guard, as the Secretary of Defense determines to be appropriate to support the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining complete operational control of the southern border of the United States.”
Trump’s quick action effectively secured the border and stopped the flow of illegal aliens into the country.
Illegal alien encounters at the southwest border are already down by 96% compared to February of 2024.
With the border secure, Trump’s top priority became rounding up and deporting criminal illegal aliens inside the United States.
According to border czar Tom Homan, 14,000 criminal illegal aliens have already been arrested.
However, Democrat Governors and Mayors across the country are doing everything they can to try and protect illegal aliens from ICE agents.
But the reverse is true in Florida where Ron DeSantis just strong-armed Republicans into supporting a hardline immigration bill to assist the Trump administration in deportations.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd pointed out that local law enforcement is in “shackles” when it comes to helping ICE agents.
He urged federal immigration authorities to remove the “shackles” and allow local law enforcement to work hand-on-hand with ICE.
“There’s got to be an infrastructure at the federal level to house these folks because we can scoop them up in large quantities because they’re here illegally committing crime and or they already have,” he said. “There’s 1.4 million with a federal warrant or a removal order,” he continued. “If we can identify them, put them in the computer, we can go pick them up.”
Judd promised to be “an ally at an even greater level than we already have been.”
“We’ll load up ICE with illegal immigrant criminals,” he added.
Judd ripped the Biden administration for allowing criminal illegal aliens to run free in the United States.
“You know, quite frankly, they thought it was better to keep criminal illegal aliens in this country so that they could victimize people than to get rid of them,” he said.
He mentioned the information gap between ICE agents and local law enforcement and urged the administration to merge them together.
“We know we can be an even bigger help to ICE if they will make sure that they give us information to help them,” he said. “We’ve got to have open communications between the federal government, between ICE and us, in order to help them,” he continued. “That’s what we’re working through right now.”
Florida is a law and order state under Ron DeSantis’ leadership.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
