Republican leaders in the state legislature say they support President Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration but want to deal with it and other issues identified by DeSantis on their schedule, not his.
Republican leaders in the state legislature say they support President Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration but want to deal with it and other issues identified by DeSantis on their schedule, not his.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a meeting with other Republican governors and President-elect Donald Trump, at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach earlier this month.on immigration.
Among the proposals DeSantis wants is one requiring counties and cities to participate in the federal deportation program and he's seeking the authority to suspend any officials, including those who were elected, who don't comply. He proposes making it a state crime to enter the U.S. illegally. And he wants to require people to show identification and their immigration status before sending remittances abroad.
It's a marked change from the last six years when the legislature largely went along with what DeSantis wanted, from. It's a sign that as a governor now in his final term, DeSantis may no longer have the political clout to run the party and the state as he did., says the executive orders and actions taken by the Trump administration so far already have immigrant communities shaken.
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