A Florida sheriff excoriated the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday for their complicity in human/sex trafficking.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd delivered the fierce rebuke during a press conference announcing the completion of “Operation Autumn Sweep.”
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News conference – Operation Autumn Sweep (October 17, 2024)
Sheriff Grady Judd is giving details about a five-day-long multi-agency undercover investigation, “Operation Autumn Sweep” that focused on human trafficking, during which 157 arrests were made of suspects who solicited prostitutes and those who offered to commit prostitution, and other suspects who committed crimes related to prostitution.
Among the arrests, four victims of human trafficking were identified and offered services, and one suspect was charged with felony human trafficking.
Of the 157 arrested, 25 are in the country illegally.
Three additional suspects were arrested for soliciting who they thought were children online, and charged with traveling to meet a minor, attempted lewd and lascivious battery on a minor, and use of a computer to seduce a child. One of those suspects works at Disney World; one is in Florida for work, and out on bond from the same charges in another state (soliciting a child online); and the third is in the country illegally.
Click here to read the release: https://tinyurl.com/3vj4p4sa
Posted by Polk County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, October 17, 2024
The five-day undercover operation swept up 157 suspects accused of “illegal acts related to soliciting prostitutes, offering to commit prostitution, or aiding and abetting prostitutes,” according to a press release from Judd’s office.
“Three other suspects were arrested for traveling to sexually batter juveniles,” the press release continues.
Of the 157 suspects, 25 were criminal aliens from Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela.
“Sixteen percent of these total arrests were people who should not even have been in this country,” Judd said at Thursday’s presser. “But they were here, and they were here because we have a federal government that enabled these criminals to come into the country, and they treated them very well after the criminals came here illegally.”
According to Judd, some of the suspects were human trafficking victims who were forced by physical abuse to prostitute themselves to up to 20 men a day to pay off the coyote who’d smuggled them into the country.
One of the victims was a woman from Venezuela whom Judd said was “greeted by the Border Patrol” when she arrived in El Paso.
“She simply walked across the open border,” Judd said. “There is no border security at the southern border. Zero. It doesn’t exist.”
The Border Patrol processed her in one day and then informed her “all about the benefits” she’d be eligible for as a criminal alien, including Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, free housing, free travel to Chicago, and free travel to Florida.
“She was given free housing, all because the United States paid for that,” Judd said. “That’s right, us the taxpayers. This was not a stealthful act, and they gave her free travel, free housing, free food, free medical care. All while people from the hurricane are still waiting for help.”
“When are we going to get tired of this? When have we had enough? When are we going to say, ‘The hardworking people of the United States are who we need to be taking care of?'” he added.
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— Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd (@PolkCoSheriff) October 17, 2024
Judd then turned specifically to the Biden-Harris Administration.
“Make no mistake about it, the government is complicit and is aiding and abetting human trafficking in the United States,” he said. “In addition to that, there is a wide-open border where fentanyl is coming across, and that is encouraged.”
“And as a result of that, we have thousands upon thousands of people dying in the United States. And then the best that our federal politicians can say was, ‘well, it didn’t kill as many people this year as last year,'” he added.
This is the second major bust by Judd’s office in only a matter of months. Last March, he announced the arrest of 228 perpetrators from a human trafficking bust. Of the perpetrators caught, 21 were criminal aliens.
“Sheriff Judd said the illegals came into the country illegally, and then DHS gave them a form, an ID, and the paperwork that allowed them to fly anywhere for free,” Florida Daily Reported at the time.
“After they were arrested and interrogated, the illegals gave specifics on how they came to Florida. Sheriff Judd said they fly to major metro centers where they set up their appointments for sex all around the country,” the paper added.
The illegals were reportedly from Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Cuba, and Guatemala.
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