On Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fought back against the idea of transferring illegal immigrants from the southern U.S. border to Broward and Palm Beach counties. DeSantis was reacting to the announcement on Thursday from Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Broward Mayor Mark Bogen that U.S. Border Patrol said that two planeloads of immigrants would be transferred to their counties each week, roughly 500 per month to each county.
DeSantis said he was going to communicate with President Trump, according to the Orlando Sentinel, asserting, “Nothing’s concrete. There’s been no migrants brought, released, in Florida. This was not something that came down from the White House. This is something that came out of the agency. Sometimes this stuff happens. Ultimately this is something I’m going to have to talk to the president about. We cannot accommodate in Florida just dumping unlawful migrants into our state. I think it’ll tax our resources, schools and health care, law enforcement, state agencies.”
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