{"id":194439,"date":"2026-03-17T03:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194439\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:37:15","slug":"florida-sheriff-pushes-back-against-mass-deportation-efforts-from-trump-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194439\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sheriff pushes back against mass deportation efforts from Trump, DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/EZCOQKUENRD4JF4QVLTBGDU7JQ.jpg\"  width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/>Grady Judd Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office Enters Into an Agreement with SOMA Global to Provide Public Safety Technology Solutions for All Polk County Public Safety Agencies (Associated Press) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POLK COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 The immigration practices of the Trump administration are getting pushback from a prominent Florida sheriff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd spoke out on Monday during a State Immigration Enforcement Council meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2026\/03\/16\/florida-sheriffs-rebel-against-trumps-desantis-mass-deportation-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2026\/03\/16\/florida-sheriffs-rebel-against-trumps-desantis-mass-deportation-efforts\/\">according to Florida Phoenix<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhile Congress sits on their hands and does nothing about this, we are on the ground floor with this, day in and day out, looking into the eyes of the folks that, yes, came here inappropriately, but some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family,\u201d Judd said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He went on to say that he plans to send a letter to Trump, along with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to urge them utilize better guidelines with their immigration enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandGrady Judd Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office Enters Into an Agreement with SOMA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-194439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}