Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning sanctuary cities in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — All law enforcement agencies in Florida will have to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday during a ceremony that often felt like a campaign rally for him and President Donald Trump.
The bill prohibits local governments from enacting “sanctuary” polices that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. It will require law enforcement to honor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers for undocumented immigrants who are arrested or convicted of a crime. It exempts crime victims and witnesses.
“Sanctuary cities basically create law-free zones where people can come to our state illegally and our country illegally, commit criminal offenses and then just walk right out the door and continue to do it,” DeSantis said. “In Florida, that will not happen.”
The bill was signed in the Okaloosa County Commission’s meeting room with an overflow crowd dotted with red “Make America Great Again” hats. Okaloosa, in the western Panhandle, is one of the state’s most conservative counties. The crowd cheered wildly in support of the bill and equally as loud at the mention of Trump.
Trump, who has made illegal immigration a top priority, helped DeSantis win the GOP primary last year and campaigned for DeSantis in the general election. Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, another close Trump ally and who campaigned across the state for DeSantis, also spoke at the ceremony.
“It felt more like a political rally than an actual bill signing,” said Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who watched the event on her cellphone. She questioned why it was held in Okaloosa, which doesn’t have a large immigrant population. “It seemed more like, ‘I want politically supportive people in the room,’ versus an environment where advocates would be protesting outside, advocates would be inside protesting, immigrant communities would be heard.”
DeSantis also introduced Kiyan Michael of Jacksonville, whose son Brandon was struck and killed by a driver who had been deported twice and illegally returned to the country again.
“We’re blessed to have the best president, we believe, since Ronald Reagan,” she said as the crowd roared. “Our fight is not over. Our immigration laws have to be reformed, they have to be changed, so you all don’t become us.”
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Yeah, fuckface, that's NOT what 'sanctuary cities' are, and not what the term means.
But you knew that, didn't you? You know you're just providing red-meat for a buncha knuckle-dragging, fact-free racist assholes, don't you RON?
In the next week or so Alabama will pass it, Ohio will pass it, Missouri will pass it, Georgia...Mississippi...BECAUSE THEY CAN.
And the GOPutin Party is the party of small government. Of course they are.
