🚨 REPORT: Broward County Sheriff Says His Officers WILL NOT Prioritize Arresting Illegal Immigrants Who Haven’t Committed Crimes. “It’s not within our purview, it’s not within our responsibility, and I won’t participate in it,” Tony said.
Last week, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said his department will not prioritize arresting undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes. On Monday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier warned the sheriff that actions, or lack thereof, could cost him his job, according to the Miami Herald.
Uthmeier posted a strongly worded letter Monday morning addressed to Tony on X lambasting remarks the sheriff made during a June 3 Broward County Commission budget workshop meeting, in which he said that there are “other priorities in this community that I’m focused on, and immigration is not one of them.”
“I don’t care what country you’re from. If you commit a crime in this county, I’m coming for you,” Tony said during the meeting. “But what I refuse to do is take this notion that we need to be knocking on doors or arresting children or going into day care centers or restaurants and taking and snatching people off these streets who have been paying taxes and contributing to this society in some positive form regardless of if they are a U.S. citizen or not. It’s not within our purview, it’s not within our responsibility, and I won’t participate in it.”