I'm assuming you don't have a lot of illegal immigrants in Polk County.

Well, we have illegal immigrants in Polk County, just like we do in every other county across this.

How do you handle that?

What is your relationship with them?

Here's what we do.

Florida law says we will assist our federal partners.

And I tell folks, I don't do anything different today than I did in the Biden administration,

then I did in the last Trump administration, then I did in the Obama administration.

When we are working, we run a warrants check on everybody.

Consensual encounters, traffic stops, suspects, witnesses, victims. If we find

there's a warrant out for the arrest, whether it is a criminal warrant or an ICE warrant,

then if it's an ICE warrant, we call ICE up and say, we're detaining a guy that's here illegally

in this country.

Do you want him or not?

They say yes or no.

They say, yes, we take him to the jail, and then within 48 hours, they have to pick them up.

The difference is, since President Trump's gotten back into office, he's done a remarkable

job immediately at sealing off the border. And now the job is how do you remove the 10 to 20

million people that are in the country illegally? Well, it is physically impossible to get all 10 or 20 million people out through the due process

system in your life or their lives.

So we prioritize, starting with the worst first, starting with the criminal committers.

And that's how we engage them because we see them

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