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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd didn’t just answer a question at a recent press conference—he put a woke reporter on notice and reminded Americans what honest language looks like. When the reporter tried to sanitize the issue with the phrase “undocumented immigrants,” Judd cut through the political correctness and said plainly what everyone knows to be true: they are illegal immigrants.
Judd backed up his blunt language with hard numbers, telling attendees that 74 percent of the illegal immigrants his deputies detained had criminal charges, while the other 26 percent were simply riding with them. That kind of statistic isn’t rhetoric—it’s frontline law enforcement reality, and it blows apart the media’s effort to pretend every border crosser is an innocent victim.
The press conference was no accident of optics; Florida officials, including Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, were laying out concrete steps to reimburse local agencies and tighten enforcement after seeing jurisdictions that won’t cooperate with ICE create dangerous spillovers. Florida is putting state muscle behind sheriffs who refuse to surrender public safety to political ideology, and Polk County has been on the front lines of that effort.
This isn’t just about words—this is about the difference between red-state results and blue-city chaos. Sheriff Judd explained why federal ICE resources are being shifted into places where city and state leaders refuse to hand over criminal non-citizens, forcing federal agents to do the hard work in the streets. Conservatives should be thankful that law-and-order sheriffs are exposing the truth that sanctuary policies protect criminals, not citizens.
For too long the media and the left have cloaked criminality in euphemisms while lecturing Americans about compassion from behind their keyboards. Judd’s message was simple and brave: protect your communities first, stop coddling lawbreakers, and use clear terms so policymakers can no longer hide behind language games. Law-abiding citizens deserve leaders who will say what’s happening and act to stop it.
If you’re tired of seeing officials apologize for crime while your neighborhood pays the price, then listen to Sheriff Judd and support leaders who put safety ahead of woke theater. We need more sheriffs and governors who will enforce the law, not cave to virtue-signaling activists who would rather tweet than secure the border.
The choice is stark: either we stand with the men and women who put themselves between our families and the chaos, or we let a combination of soft-on-crime politicians and a complicit media keep normalizing lawlessness. Sheriff Judd did his duty by telling the truth—conservatives must do theirs by electing and backing more leaders who will do the same.
