Trump immigration enforcement hampered by detention capacity, Florida sheriff warns

A Florida sheriff said instrumentality enforcement is "waiting astatine go" to assistance the Trump medication with immigration enforcement, but worries astir the deficiency of detention capacity.

Fox News Digital spoke with Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd connected the existent presumption of President Donald Trump's migration crackdown.

"We heard President Trump large and wide erstwhile helium said commencement with the worst first, and let's get these amerciable aliens retired of the country," Judd said.

However, the sheriff pointed to a important bottleneck: the deficiency of national capableness to detain migrants, and that, contempt arrests, "they're turned [migrants] backmost into the street" owed to ICE’s constricted resources.

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A Border Patrol conveyance connected I-95 successful St. Johns County, Florida, Feb. 24, 2025. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)

Judd pointed to the deficiency of holding facilities and the complications arising from national rules, which mostly forestall section jails from holding migrants for much than 48 hours aft their merchandise from section custody unless the jails person Intergovernmental Service Agreements (IGSAs) that let for longer detention nether national authority.

"You see, region jails tin clasp them [migrants] abbreviated word if we person accompanying transgression charges, but we can't clasp them agelong term," helium said. "We're much than consenting to bash that with the national authorities erstwhile the national authorities recognizes that we're helping them — they're not helping us."

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The request for further detention abstraction and resources came arsenic the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) became the archetypal successful the federation to bid and deploy troopers nether the national 287(g) agreement, which authorizes designated authorities officers to enforce migration instrumentality successful concern with national agents.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the inaugural is already delivering results and believes it could service arsenic a blueprint for different states seeking to instrumentality immigration enforcement into their ain hands.

Judd called for national enforcement action, saying, "The president is the lone 1 that tin interruption this logjam."

The Sunshine State, helium said, is prepared to execute applicable solutions, specified arsenic mounting up impermanent "soft broadside housing" for detainees, modeled aft hurricane exigency shelters. 

"We’re anxious to marque it happen. We’re sitting connected go," helium said, portion criticizing the deficiency of support. "The national authorities doesn't person the infrastructure to clasp them, nor are they consenting to wage erstwhile we connection the infrastructure."

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd discussed however his section is assisting ICE with arresting and apprehending transgression migrants. (Fox News Digital)

Judd defended ICE personnel, acknowledging their efforts contempt what helium describes arsenic inherited limitations from the erstwhile Biden administration.

"But they are limited," helium said. "They're severely constricted due to the fact that they're operating with the resources that the Biden medication near them with. And the Biden medication wasn't into deporting people. They were into importing people."

The sheriff said stricter detention policies volition service arsenic a deterrent for migrants.

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"We've got to halt the crippled playing, and lone the national authorities tin bash it," helium said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to ICE for comment.

Fox News' Danamarie McNicholl contributed to this report.