The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the state to transport illegal aliens regardless of the state in which they were picked up.
the Florida House Friday.
Under the program, the state could transport illegal aliens, who have been processed by federal authorities in any state, Fox 10 TampaThe legislation would also allocate ten million dollars in funding for this purpose. Additionally, the bill would permit the state government to retain contractors to assist in transporting illegal aliens.
The bill passed 77-34 in the House and 27-12 in the Senate and now heads to Gov. Ron Desantis’s desk. He is expected to sign it into law. The legislation is thought to have been designed to shore up the governor’s authority to continue his migrant relocation policy, per Fox 13. Notably, in September, DeSantis ordered that a group of Venezuelan illegal immigrants who arrived in Texas be taken to Martha’s Vineyard.at the time, an NBC/Telemundo poll found 52 percent of naturalized legal immigrants in Florida agreed with this move.have pointed to the practice as a necessary tool to draw attention to the border crisis in the U.S.
Speaking at a press conference on February 1, DeSantis explained the rationale behind the program in his own words.him as saying. “We can just sit here and do nothing about it or we can actually stand up and say whatever tools we have at our disposal, we are going to use.”
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