(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) At a press conference Wednesday, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said states should be empowered to send illegal immigrants back to the country from which they immigrated, rather than relying on politicized federal authorities, according to Breitbart.
“States are limited in terms of what they do,” he said. “I think a good reform federally would be deputized states to enforce immigration law.”
The potential GOP presidential candidate has repeatedly filled in for the federal government by removing illegal immigrants from his state, and transporting them to sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.
DeSantis was so successful at this task that the Florida Legislature granted permanent status and funding to his Unauthorized Alien Transport Program.
At the signing ceremony Wednesday for SB 1718, which bans the funding and use of non-citizen driver’s licenses as a legal form of state identification De Santis lambasted the Biden administration for its failure to deal with the immigration crisis.
“Where’s this president’s energy? Where’s his vigor? Where’s his commitment to the cause?” he asked. “He’s just sitting around doing nothing of importance or nothing of note while the American people suffer.”
DeSantis accused Biden of violating his Oath of Office by ignoring—and oftentimes encouraging the lack of border security.
“[It is a] huge, huge dereliction of duty to ignore the security and the borders of your own country,” he said.
DeSantis went on to say that deportation ought to be a part of the state’s authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens.
“Texas should be able to send them back to Mexico or back to these other countries,” he reasoned. “You shouldn’t have to turn them over to Border Patrol, and then Biden orders them released back into our own country.”
He said he knew his actions as Florida’s governor were insufficient to solve the crisis, but that he had reached the “limit of what states can do.”
