An ICE officer assigned to the Tampa field office jumped into a community pool fully clothed, pulled an unconscious six-year-old girl from the water, and performed CPR until she started breathing again, the third time in recent months that an immigration enforcement agent has saved a child’s life while off the clock or working a collateral assignment.
Gregory Simmonds, an officer with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Tampa, spotted the girl floating unconscious in a Pasco County, Florida, pool and acted immediately. Closed-circuit footage from the facility showed Simmonds look toward the child, leap into the water without pausing to remove his clothes, and carry her to the pool’s edge, where he began chest compressions on dry ground. The child regained consciousness before emergency medical crews arrived.
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