Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to bill the Biden administration for the cost of activating his state’s national guard to combat rising illegal immigration into the Florida Keys. Speakin…
Speaking at an unrelated press conference, DeSantis hit back at White House officials who ripped his activation of the Florida National Guard as a political stunt.
Roughly 700 migrants, mostly from Cuba and Haiti, have descended on the Florida Keys in makeshift marine vessels in recent weeks. “The Coast Guard is stretched so thin,” he said. “What the Coast Guard has told us is we are not going to get additional resources from the federal government. This is what we have. So we are filling gaps that the federal government should be filling.”DeSantis said the Florida Keys are littered with abandoned vessels that often wash up near the homes of local residents, and that he has directed state agencies to clear them from the area.
“We have seen Gov. DeSantis do political stunts,” she said at a briefing Wednesday. “That is how he perceives to fix this issue from Florida.”TNS
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