An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a young child who was drowning in a community pool in Pasco County, Florida.
Details and footage of the harrowing May 16 incident just came to light this week.
Gregory Simmonds was off-duty while attending an end-of-season party for his son’s soccer team when he noticed a 6-year-old boy in distress in the water.
“I jumped in the pool, swam over as quick as I could. When I picked up the kid, his body condition at that time, I knew immediately that this kid’s [going to] need some sort of CPR,” Simmonds told Fox & Friends First.
Simmonds immediately administered life-saving medical care to the boy, who was not breathing at the time.
“While the left screams ‘Defund ICE’ and calls them Nazis, this ICE officer jumped into a Florida pool to save a drowning kid.
— Dante Rossi (@tvc1five) June 18, 2026
Officer Gregory Simmonds — real hero.” pic.twitter.com/1V3GuM0MWX
“I was absolutely relieved. I mean, I was at the right place at the right time. I’m just glad this kid gets a second chance at life. It was truly remarkable,” Simmonds stated.
“We’re just trying to protect communities. You know, protecting the national security threats that are presented to us and a lot of the public safety threats for our communities,” Simmonds said of himself and fellow ICE officers.
The child is expected to make a full recovery, local authorities say.
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I met my first wife on a cruise boat, we went on to the Yucatan Pennislua and got drunk, Beeeyatch decided to swim to another island after doing 20 tequllia shots and booger sugar and weeds smoking, I came out of nowhere and resucued her booty, baby, its a vacation not a suicide event,
I got her back on the boat, OMG, Im limping bad, shes in a wheel chair, but, as we returned we were National Heroes, everyone on the Boat were cheering us on the following days, Yeah, 2 Champions, and of course meet at the bar at 10 AM
There is more to the story, The Mexicans running the place and German tourist watched us first hand and were loving it.
When 2 lovers go at it,
Well, its gonna be a world wind, I saved that beeyatechs life. Hey, Yall, She came to me first and punched me at a bar on the boat while I was minding my own shidd, and demanded a shot of whiskey, ok Sweet Heart, lol, See, this is why I only date wimmins from tampa bay
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Fine, outstanding white American. Bravo!