Republican governor Ron Desantis says that when it comes to implementing the president Donald Trump Repression of illegal immigration, Florida is “rocking and rolling”.
On Tuesday, the conservative governor of two Florida mandates used part of his speech on the state of the state to highlight a panel of immigration laws adopted a few weeks ago during a special session of the legislature dominated by the GOP.
“We meet so that the regular legislative session having already promulgated revolutionary legislation to fulfill the historic mission to deliver once and for all the mandate of President Donald Trump to end the illegal immigration crisis”, ” Desantis said In his speech to the legislators within the Capitol of the State in Tallahassee.
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Florida Governor Ron Desantis tightens the legislators while entering the Chamber’s House to contact a joint session on the opening day of the 2025 legislative session, Tuesday March 4, 2025, at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (APO photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
And the governor boasted that “no state has done anymore, and no state did it earlier than us in Florida”.
Florida new measures Rascidre the application of immigration by the police and the local police.
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“Thanks to recent legislation, it is now a crime to illegally enter Florida, the days of capture and liberation are over, and all the state and local forces have a duty to help the efforts of interest in the application of immigration,” said the governor.
The law enforcement officials are leaning as the Governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, speaks at a press conference on the application of immigration, in an American hangar on customs and border protection on the basis of Homestead air property, Wednesday, February 26, 2025, in Homestead, Florida (APTO / Rebecca Blackwell) (APO photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
The new law also obliges the death penalty for immigrants in the United States without legal authorization which commits capital offenses such as first degree murder or child rape. The legislation goes even further than a multitude of decrees signed by Trump since his return to the White House at the end of January.
Addressing journalists following his speech, Desantis described new laws as “important immigration legislation” and presented that “we have gone so much faster than any other state”.
The Florida State Capitol Building, as we see in Tallahassee, Florida. (Mark Wallheiser / Getty Images)
The governor signed the bill of immigration law last month after a compromise with the republican leaders of the Legislative Assembly was negotiated, which ended a one -week confrontation on the bills in duel.
DESANTIS called the original special legislative session, but the legislators quickly deconancy and then held a special special session, where they adopted their own bill of immigration law, which the governor criticized.
Desantis, reflecting on Tuesday on the deadlock with the legislators, said: “We arrived. It was not necessarily a forehand, but we arrived there.”
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The governor, who led a bitter and unsuccessful primary challenge against Trump for the 2024 republican presidential appointment, was congratulated by the president of the elected era in January for calling the special session.
“Thank you Ron, I hope that other governors will follow!” Trump wrote in an article on social networks after Desantis announced the special session.
