Florida sheriff encourages illegal aliens to self-deport ahead of Trump inauguration: 'Southbound and down'

A Florida sheriff is combating illegal immigration by sharing a bold connection with those who are successful the authorities illegally up of President-elect Trump's inauguration.

"And I permission with this message: 'Southbound and down.' Do it yourself. You tin self-deport and debar a batch of situation sentence, but it's time. Southbound and down," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a property league connected Wednesday. 

Grady was joined by Gov. Ron DeSantis and respective different section and authorities officials during the property league held Winter Haven to sermon actions to combat amerciable immigration.

Judd said a crackdown connected amerciable migration would assistance trim crime.

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd (Polk County Sheriff's Office)

"Florida needs to acceptable the illustration for the different states and enactment the president [Trump] to get escaped of these criminals who are victimizing our people," Judd said. 

During the property conference, Judd besides shared respective circumstantial examples of crimes involving amerciable immigrants, including cases of murder, DUI manslaughter and organized theft rings.

DeSantis echoed Judd and said helium was assured that the 2nd Trump medication would instrumentality swift enactment against the outgoing Biden administration's immigration policy.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to assistance President-elect Trump ace down connected amerciable immigration. (Getty Images)

"We successful Florida person a consciousness of urgency to execute this mission," DeSantis said. "The ngo is precise simple: We request to extremity the amerciable migration situation erstwhile and for each successful these United States of America."

Florida sued the Biden medication connected respective antithetic occasions, including implicit its "illegal" catch-and-release policies astatine the confederate borderline and, astir recently, its alleged refusal to assistance the authorities purge noncitizens from elector rolls successful the 2024 election. 

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Then-President Trump greets Florida Republican gubernatorial campaigner Ron DeSantis during a run rally connected Oct. 31, 2018, successful Estero, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis scheduled a peculiar league to statesman the week aft Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration to money efforts to code amerciable immigration, including detention and relocation. The politician has said the authorities indispensable enactment to enactment Trump's promises to tackle amerciable migration and guarantee that "we don’t person immoderate lingering incentives for radical to travel into our authorities illegally."

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In a station connected Truth Social connected Tuesday, Trump thanked DeSantis for calling a peculiar session, saying "hopefully different Governors volition follow!"

Fox News Digital's Landon Mion contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com