DeSantis suggests the world's top tennis player, who's unvaccinated, could enter the state by boat to play the Miami Open.
, specifically looking for a way to get Serbian tennis superstar Novak Djokovic into the country for a tournament this month, suggesting that if Djokovic can't reach Miami by air or land, maybe he can get there by sea.
DeSantis told Biden that Djokovic"poses no meaningful health or safety risks" and that the tennis pro has actually been in the country"at least twice—including once during your presidency.""It is also not clear to me why, even by the terms of your own proclamation, Mr. Djokovic could not enter this country legally by boat," DeSantis wrote to the president.
"Your administration does not appear to have issued analogous restrictions for non-U.S. individuals seeking to enter our country by boat," DeSantis footnoted.has reached out to the White House on the letter by DeSantis, and queried if an exception would be made for Djokovic, or if the tennis superstar would be allowed by boat into Florida.
"You think about some of these mandates that have been done in the last couple of years. You still see them now," DeSantis said at the time."They're not letting Djokovic come to the United States to play in the U.S. Open because of the shot!"
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