Polk County has deported twenty-three illegal immigrants since it entered into a Secure Communities Initiative with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The initiative allows local law enforcement officers to send fingerprints to a federal database. This helps establish criminal records for offenders like one Polk detainee who had used forty aliases. Sheriff Donald Hill said his deputies are not profiling Latinos and rounding them up. Hill doesn’t want Polk County taxpayers paying food and lodging expenses for “criminal aliens.” Illegal immigrants will be deported for minor misdemeanors, and tried and deported for more serious crimes. One deportee was an illegal alien from India.