'No integrity!' Furious sheriff slams Noem’s DHS for raiding his ranks using his own data
Florida sheriffs are furious that the Department of Homeland Security used data provided to them from sheriffs' departments around the country to poach their staff for their own desperate efforts to meet deportation quotas from the White House.
Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Sheriff Grady Judd said that in their capacity as local law enforcement, they are already working with immigration officers as part of their current role.
He complained they've spent "a lot of time and effort" to train people "on our dime, by the way."
We "received a direct email from this — from the administration, in fact, from a Madison Sheehan, who is a deputy director, recruiting them," Judd said.
"I mean, that's biting the hand that's feeding you. And I am angry," he confessed. "It tells me it lacks a professionalism. I mean, they speak, I've got this — I've got this letter here — when it says that, you know, we're committed to serving with integrity and professionalism. Well, I can tell you something. Madison clearly showed she has no integrity or no professionalism to actually directly email the people who work for us."
"The reality is, if our local law enforcement officers wanted to work for the feds, the opportunity has been there for a long time. And the reality to me of all of this is not that they're recruiting, it's that they used our data that we submitted to them in order to complete the paperwork, to talk directly to our people," he complained.
Judd also said that they dodged sending the requests to the state level because they didn't want Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to see it and become angry. He said the ICE supervisor in the state apologized to them, but the national office still "doubled down" and said their efforts would continue.
"It's not just me. It's all of the Florida sheriffs. We've all had conversations about this," Judd continued.
"It's not the fact that they did it. It was the way they did it, and that they used our professional data that we sent them. You know, Kristi Noem needs to put her big girl pants on and hold Madison accountable and say, 'Hey, that's not professional.' That's not how you treat your partners. You're causing us to lose the trust and respect of the force multipliers that's trying to help us in this mission. But still, it's crickets," he closed.
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