Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a special legislative session to enact policies aligned with President-elect Donald Trump's immigration agenda. DeSantis aims to provide funding and legislative measures to support state and local law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration laws. He also seeks to repeal a law granting in-state college tuition to undocumented students.
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Read full article: Gov. DeSantis hopes legislature can approve hurricane relief grants to help homeowners rebuild, prepare “State and local officials in Florida must help the Trump administration enforce our nation’s immigration laws,” DeSantis said. “In order to do that effectively, we are going to need legislation to impose additional duties on local officials and provide funding for those local officials.”
“There also needs to be measures to hold people accountable who are violating our anti-sanctuary policies,” he said. “Florida needs to make sure that we don’t have any lingering incentives for people to come into our state illegally.” On Monday, DeSantis called for repealing the law. Albritton's office did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press following the governor's announcement.
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