Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, on the verge of a 2024 presidential campaign, announced last week the state's most ambitious proposal yet to combat illegal immigration.
The legislation, which Mr. DeSantis said would counteract “Biden’s border crisis,” would expand E-Verify to private sector businesses, strengthen detention requirements for immigrants without documentation in Florida and invalidate out-of-state licenses issued to those living here illegally, among other changes.
Mr. Trump ran his 2016 campaign on the promise of securing the southern border and accomplished some of that goal during his term by building part of a southern border wall and making it harder for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to remain. Mr. DeSantis introduced his border security proposal two days after Mr. Biden announced new asylum restrictions.“If he’s going to run again,” Mr. DeSantis said, “this is a massive problem for him. And I think that they may be wising up about that, because, you can’t defend the borders of your own country? That’s kind of like your primary job.”
“I think we’re going to be able to do more in the next couple of months, when the Legislature reconvenes, than anyone’s been able to do in the modern history of Florida,” Mr. DeSantis said during an appearance in Jacksonville. Mr. DeSantis, appearing next to a “Biden’s Border Crisis” sign as he addressed an audience in Jacksonville, said his proposal should serve as a template for other states. A multistate approach to curbing illegal immigration, Mr. DeSantis said, will “force the federal government to get with the program and to finally secure and defend the borders of the United States of America.
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