Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called a special legislative session to address immigration, seeking measures like mandatory participation in federal deportation programs and making illegal entry a state crime. Republican lawmakers, while supporting Trump's stance on immigration, have challenged DeSantis's call, asserting their right to set the legislative agenda.
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. But it's not clear what measures, if any, will be considered as key Republican lawmakers have called the session"premature."
"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." His call for the session said illegal immigration has caused"massive costs" for Americans.
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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