Florida is suing California over its sanctuary policies and decision to issue commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the Sunshine State filed a lawsuit Wednesday night, citing a fatal crash on a local turnpike caused by an illegal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-given-commercial-drivers-license-by-californias-newsom-charged-in-fatal-semi-truck-crash">immigrant</a> truck driver who had a California-issued Commercial Driver’s License (CDL).
The man behind the wheel of the semi tractor-trailer, Indian national Harjinder Singh, 28, made an illegal U-turn in August and killed three people.
“It’s a shame, and that’s why we’re taking Gavin Newsom to the Supreme Court,” Uthmeier told Sean Hannity Wednesday night.
He said Florida intends “to hold them [California] accountable for the carnage that their sanctuary illegal immigration policies have caused to states like Florida across the country.”
“Here in Florida, we can do everything right, we can back the blue, we can enforce the law, we can combat illegal immigration, but we still suffer when Gavin Newsom and liberals on the west coast allow these illegals in, encourage them, enable them to get these driver&#8217;s licenses and then they cross the country and ultimately take lives,” Uthmeier said.
“They care more about their love affair with illegals than protecting American citizens,” he added.
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Tonight, we filed a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and California in the US Supreme Court because their so-called “sanctuary” policies for illegal aliens are harming states like Florida.
California must pay for the carnage of their open border policies and unlawful CDL programs. <a href="https://t.co/iEauMlWXkY">pic.twitter.com/iEauMlWXkY</a>
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1978641628157055306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-nabs-illegal-immigrant-truckers-with-blue-state-drivers-licenses-let-in-by-biden?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=ICE+Nabs+Illegal+Immigrant+Truckers+With+Blue+State+Driver%E2%80%99s+Licenses+Let+In+By+Biden">commenced</a> a crackdown on the issuance of CDLs to illegal immigrants. Several Republican lawmakers, led by Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr, are this week expected to introduce legislation that would enable the Secretary of Transportation to stop blue states from issuing commercial licenses to illegals, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-bill-takes-aim-at-democrat-states-giving-truck-licenses-to-illegal-aliens?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Republican+Bill+Takes+Aim+At+Democrat+States+Giving+Truck+Licenses+To+Illegal+Aliens">reported</a>.
During a recent three-day operation in Oklahoma, ICE agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-nabs-illegal-immigrant-truckers-with-blue-state-drivers-licenses-let-in-by-biden">arrested</a> 91 illegal immigrant truck drivers, most of whom had California CDLs, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Department of Transportation has also launched an audit of states issuing CDLs, while instituting an English-language requirement for truck drivers.

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An Update On The Shocking Crime That Democrats Don’t Want You To Know About

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In a grim reminder of a justice system gone adrift, Ronald Exantus — the man who killed 6-year-old Kentuckian Logan Tipton in the dead of night — has been <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15179267/ronald-exantus-killer-arrested-logan-tipton.html">rearrested</a>, this time in Florida, after a controversial early parole release that sparked public outrage.
Exantus, now 42, was convicted in 2018 of multiple assaults after he broke into the Tipton family’s home in Versailles, Kentucky, in 2015. Though he wasn’t convicted of murder — thanks to a jury’s “not guilty by reason of insanity” verdict — the facts were clear: he crept into the family&#8217;s home and repeatedly stabbed a sleeping child in the head with such force that the butcher knife bent.
And yet, after serving just seven years of a 20-year sentence, Exantus <a href="https://www.wkyt.com/2025/10/09/ronald-exantus-arrested-florida-officials-working-send-him-back-kentucky-ag-says/">walked free</a> on October 1 under Kentucky’s Mandatory Reentry Supervision law, bolstered by education and “good behavior” credits. The parole board had recommended he remain locked up. The Department of Corrections overruled the board.
Exantus’ brief taste of freedom ended with handcuffs in Florida. Marion County deputies arrested him for violating his parole and failing to register as a convicted felon, a requirement under Florida law within 48 hours of relocating. He was found living across from an elementary school — the same kind of innocent environment he once shattered.
Sheriff Billy Woods didn’t mince words: “The fact that he was living right next to an elementary school is even more repulsive&#8230; I have no tolerance for this type of dangerous person flaunting our laws and thinking he would hide out in our county.”
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier echoed the outrage, saying officials are already working to send Exantus back to Kentucky. “This dangerous individual who murdered a child by repeatedly stabbing him in the head was in Florida. We are not tolerating that,” he stated.
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Breaking: Ronald Exantus arrested in Florida; officials working to send him back to Kentucky, AG says: <a href="https://t.co/5jCkLK9Cmn">https://t.co/5jCkLK9Cmn</a> <a href="https://t.co/4HKn0kx3GG">pic.twitter.com/4HKn0kx3GG</a>
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The release ignited a public firestorm. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaking for President Donald Trump’s administration,<a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/05/white-house-looking-into-ronald-exantus-logan-tipton-kentucky-boy-killing/86535555007/"> stated</a> bluntly: “It’s wholly unacceptable for a child killer to walk free after just several years in prison.”
The facts of the case are not in dispute. On the night of the killing, Exantus — a dialysis nurse from Indianapolis — drove to Kentucky for no discernible reason. He entered the Tipton home through an unlocked door and attacked the family in their sleep. Logan was killed. His father and two sisters were stabbed. The court acknowledged that Exantus was mentally disturbed. That didn’t make the blood any less real.
Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, gave voice to the anguish, declaring, “I’ve told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man.”
His mother, Heather Tipton, said the justice system offered no protection, not even a courtesy call when Exantus was released, offering, “It just feels like a 6-year-old’s life is worth more than ten years in prison.”

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A jury on Tuesday found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year.
After the verdict was read, Routh <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1970561076249891141">attempted</a> to stab himself in the neck with a pen, prompting law enforcement to restrain and shackle him.
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🚨🚨BREAKING: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh tries to stab himself in the neck with a pen after guilty verdict read in court.🚨🚨 <a href="https://t.co/bnpYKeerVp">pic.twitter.com/bnpYKeerVp</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1970568361517158886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Florida jury spent roughly two hours in deliberations after the two-week trial wrapped up earlier Tuesday. Routh represented himself at the close of the trial, giving closing remarks for less than an hour before he was stopped by Judge Eileen Cannon, who previously admonished Routh for moving off topic, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-routh-verdict-trump-assassination-attempt-florida-golf-course-rcna232946">NBC News</a>.
Routh, 59, faced five counts, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault of a federal officer, and multiple firearms offenses. Routh pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The convicted attempted assassin made the decision early on in his trial to forgo the court-appointed attorneys provided to represent him. Routh struggled throughout the trial to make a viable defense of himself or even navigate the court process.
Over the course of the two week trial, prosecutors called on dozens of witnesses and introduced evidence from cell phone data, DNA matches, bullets found in a “sniper’s nest” at the golf course, and other materials to build their case.
&#8220;This was not a publicity stunt,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Browne said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jurors-begin-deliberations-trump-golf-course-assassination-attempt-trial">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The evidence has shown one thing and one thing only — the defendant wanted Donald Trump dead.&#8221;
Routh is not a lawyer, nor does he have any legal training. He asked Cannon in July if he could represent himself after claiming to have irreconcilable differences with the court-appointed attorneys tasked with representing him. Cannon agreed, but told Routh that representing himself in the case is a “bad idea.”
During his closing argument, Routh meandered from the charges against him and the assassination attempt to topics such as the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, Ukraine, the Revolutionary War, broadcaster Edward Murrow, and other issues. He said during his closing that the only charge he could be guilty of is caring “deeply for this country,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/trump-ryan-routh-trial-florida.html">The New York Times</a>.

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Florida Congressman Randy Fine and Texas Rep. Keith Self on Friday introduced legislation that would ensure that Sharia law cannot be implemented anywhere in the United States.
The “No Shari’a Act” would prohibit the application of Sharia “where such application would violate constitutional rights,” according to a copy of the legislation shared with The Daily Wire. Both Fine and Self said that the measure was intended to protect Western culture and ensure that the United States would not be taken over by Islamic radicals. 
“We are not going to become a Muslim nation. There are plenty out there,” Fine told The Daily Wire. “If you want to live under Sharia, return to where you came from, but we’re not interested in you coming here and conquering our country.”
Self said the influence of Shariah was already present in Texas. 
“We cannot have two sets of laws,” he told The Daily Wire. “There is one in the United States. It&#8217;s called the U.S. Constitution and the state laws under states of course, but we cannot have two different civilizations with different laws.”
The issue came to a head in Texas with controversy over the planned EPIC City development outside Dallas that was intended to be a Muslim community. Critics worried that the development would implement Sharia.
The legislation says that the “the Constitution of the United States is and must remain the supreme law of the land, and no foreign law or legal system may be permitted to undermine it” and that “no court shall enforce a judgment, decree, or arbitration decision if it relies, in whole or in part, on Shari’a or any foreign law that violates the constitutional rights of any party.”
Fine referenced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-mayor-in-dearborn-michigan-tells-christian-resident-you-are-not-welcome-here">recent confrontation</a> in Dearborn, Michigan, where a Christian resident was told he was not welcome in the city by Muslim Mayor Abdullah Hammoud after he spoke out in opposition to naming a street after Arab American publisher Osama Siblani.
“We do not want to replicate this barbaric Middle Age philosophy in this country, and we need to make that clear, this is not welcome in the United States,” Fine said. “We need to respond to the Islamists saying Christians are not welcome in Dearborn by saying, no, you are not welcome here.”
Self said that Sharia allows for child marriages, husbands to beat their wives, honor killings, and genital mutilation. He said these practices were “not compatible with U.S. law, U.S. Constitution, and our civilization.”

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Florida Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Sharia Law: ‘We Are Not Going To Become A Muslim Nation.’

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An illegal immigrant hit an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with his car as the officer attempted to arrest him during a Sunday traffic stop in Florida, The Daily Wire has learned.
Henry Isaul Garcia reversed his car — which was carrying three other illegal immigrants — into the ICE officer’s leg before “nearly crushing him,” the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. The Guatemalan citizen then hit multiple ICE vehicles during the traffic stop in Homestead, Florida, before speeding off and colliding with a black utility van.
<div id="attachment_972577" style="width: 490px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-972577" class="wp-image-972577 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/unnamed.jpg" alt="The illegal immigrant's crushed vehicle was recovered at the scene." width="480" height="640" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/unnamed.jpg 480w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/unnamed-225x300.jpg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/unnamed-432x576.jpg 432w" sizes=" (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" />The illegal immigrant’s crushed vehicle was recovered at the scene.</div>
Garcia and his illegal immigrant passengers then ran out of the car, but were ultimately nabbed by the feds, according to DHS.
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said “sanctuary politicians” who “have openly encouraged and provided tips for how to evade our ICE officers” are to blame for the latest attack.
“We are praying for the speedy recovery of our law enforcement officer,” McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. “The violence against our brave ICE law enforcement must come to an end. This is the second incident in a week where an officer was injured while arresting an illegal alien.”
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The latest attack comes amid a 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE officers as they carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
In one recent example, an ICE officer in Chicago was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-shot-and-killed-after-wounding-ice-agent-in-chicago">hit and dragged by an illegal immigrant</a> driver. The federal officer responded by shooting the driver, who was later pronounced dead.
“This type of rhetoric is contributing to our ICE officers facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them. It is time to tone down the rhetoric,” said McLaughlin.
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The injured ICE officer is in stable condition after being treated at a local hospital, DHS said. The group of illegal immigrants was also transported to a hospital, before they were discharged and booked into ICE detention.
Garcia crossed the United States-Mexico border illegally into Eagle Pass, Texas, in March 2022, when more than <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">222,000 migrants</a> streamed into the country with the promise of the Biden administration’s problematic catch-and-release policy.

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Florida officials promised Thursday to discipline teachers who celebrate the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Florida Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas sent a memo to school superintendents saying that there would be consequences for employees who celebrate or mock the killing of Kirk, who was gunned down on Wednesday while holding an event at Utah Valley University.
“It has been brought to my attention that some Florida educators have posted despicable comments on social media regarding the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. These few are not a reflection of the great, high-quality teachers who make up the vast majority of Florida&#8217;s educators,” he wrote in the memo. “Nevertheless, I will be conducting an investigation of every educator who engages in this vile, sanctionable behavior.”
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Teachers are held to a higher standard as public servants and must ensure their conduct does not undermine the trust of the students and families they serve. We will hold teachers who choose to make disgusting comments about the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk accountable.… <a href="https://t.co/KzXCCGkvZm">pic.twitter.com/KzXCCGkvZm</a>
— Anastasios Kamoutsas (@StasiKamoutsas) <a href="https://twitter.com/StasiKamoutsas/status/1966194627578384748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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While tributes for Kirk poured in following news of his death, many leftists responded by mocking Kirk or celebrating his death. A dean of students at Middle Tennessee State University was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-university-dean-fired-after-saying-she-had-no-sympathy-for-charlie-kirk?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Tennessee+University+Dean+Fired+After+Saying+She+Had+%E2%80%98No+Sympathy%E2%80%99+For+Charlie+Kirk">fired</a> Wednesday after she said she had “zero sympathy” for Kirk.
Kamoutsas noted that while teachers have First Amendment rights, comments they make could violate professional codes of conduct that they are required to follow.
“Although educators have First Amendment rights, these rights do not extend without limit into their professional duties,” he wrote in the memo. “An educator&#8217;s personal views that are made public may undermine the trust of the students and families that they serve.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis praised Kamoutsas for the memo.
“Celebrating the assassination of a 31-year-old father of two young kids is disturbing; that teachers would be among those who do so is completely unacceptable,” he <a href="https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1966210462011576409">said</a>. “Glad [Kamoutsas] is bringing accountability. It is sad that we’ve seen a number of teachers across America celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder.”
Other individuals across the country have also lost their jobs over posts made about Kirk’s death, including at the University of Mississippi.
&#8220;Yesterday, a University of Mississippi staff member re-shared hurtful, insensitive comments on social media regarding the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk,” University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce <a href="https://x.com/OleMiss/status/1966202655706865785">said</a> Thursday. &#8220;These comments run completely counter to our institutional values of civility, fairness, and respecting the dignity of each person. We condemn these actions, and this staff member is no longer employed by the university.”

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Fresh off a major legal victory, the Department of Homeland Security is touting the wide variety of illegal aliens convicted on charges related to violence, drugs, and sex crimes currently held in “Alligator Alcatraz.&#8221;
Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.42.1.pdf">struck down</a> a federal judge’s order saying that Alligator Alcatraz needed to be shut down. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated the ruling over the weekend, saying he was working to open up similar illegal detention centers across the state, including one he dubbed he “Panhandle Pokey.” 
In the meantime, Alligator Alcatraz will remain home to illegal immigrants convicted of drug trafficking, murder, and sexual offenses targeting children. Since its opening, the detention center has been the focus of protests from leftist activists and a lawsuit arguing that Florida and the Trump administration violated federal environmental laws. 
“Despite repeated hoaxes peddled by the media and activist judges, Alligator Alcatraz is still open and housing some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, pedophiles, weapon traffickers, and drug dealers until they are swiftly removed from our country,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. 
According to the Department of Homeland Security, those currently detained at Alligator Alcatraz include the following: 
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<li>Abelardo Ocampo, an illegal from Mexico convicted of attempted homicide/second-degree murder and possession of a weapon with intent to harm.  </li>
<li>Eraldo Ariel Perez Perez, an illegal from Guatemala, convicted of sexual battery of a victim (12 years or older) physically helpless to resist.</li>
<li>Efrain Mez-Choc, another illegal from Guatemala convicted of engaging in sex with a child and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child 12-16 years old. </li>
<li>Alexis Moreda Gallardo, an illegal from Cuba convicted of larceny, fraud impersonation, aggravated assault, and indecent exposure.  </li>
<li>Gustavo Cruz Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of prostitution and sex offenses.  </li>
<li>Gersain Lerma Lasprilla, an illegal from Colombia convicted in his home country for the manufacture and trafficking of firearms and ammunition.  </li>
<li>Thallys Roberto Cassimiro DeSouza, an illegal from Brazil convicted of robbery. </li>
<li>David Mota Castillo, an illegal from the Dominican Republic convicted of drug trafficking. </li>
<li>Simeon De La Cruz Paredes, an illegal from the Dominican Republic convicted of smuggling aliens.</li>
<li>Diego Puentes, an illegal from Guatemala convicted of second-degree murder. </li>
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The Trump administration plans to open similar facilities in other states.
“Innovative state partnerships like Alligator Alcatraz, Louisiana Lock-up, Speedway Slammer, and Cornhusker Clink are expanding detention capability to lock up criminal illegal aliens and turbo charging our efforts to get criminal illegal aliens out of our country,” McLaughlin said. “Fire up the deportation planes.”

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President Donald Trump on Friday evening pushed back on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-in-the-nation-florida-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates">Florida&#8217;s plan</a> to eliminate all vaccine mandates, including school requirements.
Trump said Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo&#8217;s plan was a &#8220;tough stance&#8221; and emphasized that some vaccines are &#8220;not controversial&#8221; and should generally be taken to protect children.
&#8220;I think we have to be very careful,&#8221; he told the press from the Oval Office. &#8220;You have some vaccines that are so amazing: the polio vaccine, I happen to think is amazing. A lot of people think that COVID [vaccine] is amazing. You know, there are many people that believe strongly in that.&#8221;
&#8220;You have some vaccines that are so incredible, and I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don&#8217;t have to be vaccinated,&#8221; the president reiterated. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very tough position.&#8221;
&#8220;Initially, I heard about it yesterday,&#8221; Trump said of the Florida vaccine initiative. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a tough stance. You have vaccines that work &#8212; just pure and simple, they work, they&#8217;re not controversial at all. And I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it and they endanger other people. And when you don&#8217;t have controversy at all, I think people should take it.&#8221;
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump pushes back on Florida removing all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren. He says some vaccines are a must.
&#8220;I think we have to be careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing. The Polio vaccine I think is amazing. A lot of people… <a href="https://t.co/PsTGMIBaWl">pic.twitter.com/PsTGMIBaWl</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1964084178720608711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
Dr. Ladapo, alongside Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced on Wednesday that the Sunshine State will end all vaccination mandates, including requirements for schools.
“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the government, is working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law — all of them,” Ladapo said. “Every last one of them.”
Ladapo said the government has no right to tell parents what to put in their children’s bodies, or their own bodies.
“Every last [mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain — and slavery,” he argued. “Who am I, or anyone else … to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?”
“I don’t have that right,” he continued. “Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God. I don’t have that right. Government does not have that right.”
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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED, and the room erupted.
All. Not just COVID. ALL.
JOSEPH LADAPO: &#8220;Every last one is wrong and DRIPS with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell YOU what… <a href="https://t.co/Kah5LscGTo">pic.twitter.com/Kah5LscGTo</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1963254999204442607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
Ending vaccine requirements for schoolchildren would be a seismic change — every state in the nation currently has school vaccine requirements. Additionally, liberal states have increasingly nixed religious exemptions for families looking to opt their children out of some requirements.
Gov. DeSantis on Friday seemed to reiterate his support for the plan. During remarks at the second annual State Freedom Caucus Summit, the governor boosted the right to medical freedom and said he didn’t believe the government should coerce people into certain treatment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-reveals-what-battles-he-wants-to-tackle-next-as-governor?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=Original&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=DeSantis+Reveals+What+Battles+He+Wants+To+Tackle+Next+As+Governor">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Gov. DeSantis has led the charge on the issue of <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/12/desantis-medical-freedom-laws?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical freedom</a> in the wake of aggressive COVID policies. In 2023, for example, he signed a set of medical freedom measures into law, which banned mask and vaccine mandates and added new conscience protections for health care providers.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-in-the-nation-florida-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates">First In The Nation: Florida To End All Vaccine Mandates</a>

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IRVING, Texas — Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said Friday night that he planned to remain on “offense” in Florida as he pressed conservative lawmakers gathered from across the country to govern boldly. 
DeSantis, whose time as governor has been punctuated by major conservative victories from education to illegal immigration, said he hopes to push Florida to have greater medical freedom and to eliminate property taxes. He made the remarks during a keynote address at the second annual State Freedom Caucus Summit at the Omni Las Colinas Hotel just outside Dallas.
“I didn&#8217;t get in there to be mushy on policy,” DeSantis said. “I knew what I believed.  I told people what I was going to do. And my view was, I&#8217;m sitting at the desk the first day I was governor, I looked around the office, no decorations yet, it was empty, and I said, you know, I don&#8217;t know what SOB’s going to succeed me in this office, but they are not going to have anything to do.”
DeSantis was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, a coalition of House Republicans who have fought to reign in federal spending and to advance conservative policies at the federal level. The State Freedom Caucus Network was founded in 2021 with the goal of creating state level organizations of conservative lawmakers and equipping them with “the high-level staff, strategy, and community conservatives need to take ground across the country.”
On the lines of medical freedom, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced that the state would seek to end all vaccine mandates, including requirements for schools. DeSantis said Friday that he didn&#8217;t believe government should coerce people into certain treatment. He also said people couldn&#8217;t truly have private property if they effectively had to pay &#8220;rent&#8221; to the government for it.
During his speech, DeSantis highlighted his record on fighting lockdowns during COVID, battles to protect parental rights in education, elimination of DEI at public universities, and fights with Disney.
“ I think woke ideology is toxic whether it&#8217;s being imposed by a government agency, or whether it&#8217;s being imposed by a multinational corporation. I think it&#8217;s wrong,” DeSantis said.
The Florida governor also celebrated the Thursday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-allows-floridas-alligator-alcatraz-to-remain-open-for-business?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Court+Allows+Florida’s+Alligator+Alcatraz+To+Remain+‘Open+For+Business’">decision</a> from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked a lower court’s order to shut down the Everglades-based illegal alien detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz.
“Every time I get out of bed in the morning, I get sued by the Left,” DeSantis said. “You can&#8217;t be worried about getting sued, you know that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re gonna do, and they go to liberal judges, and we know based on the judge, we have no chance at the trial court, and so we know we&#8217;ll just win on appeal.”
He said that Florida would be partnering with the Trump administration to establish other illegal alien detention centers.
DeSantis said that Florida’s massive shift to the Right under his leadership showed the impact of governing conservatively, saying that “people respond to results.”
“It&#8217;s not always easy,” he said. “None of this is cost free, but it&#8217;s worth it. And what we are doing in these states by showing that conservative policies that built this country, that our Founding Fathers believed in, we show that those work, that people vote with their feet &#8212; that is the best possible evidence we can produce to show people this is the way forward, not just us, for our kids and our grandkids.”

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A federal appeals court issued a ruling on Thursday allowing an illegal alien detention center in Florida dubbed Alligator Alcatraz to remain “open for business” while a lawsuit against the state and the Trump administration makes its way through court.
An Obama-appointed federal district court judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-appointed-judge-orders-alligator-alcatraz-to-shut-down-within-60-days">issued</a> a temporary restraining order last month ordering Florida and the Trump administration to stop placing illegal aliens in the facility. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that judge’s order in a 2-1 decision on Thursday.
The judges <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.42.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that a lawsuit brought by environmental groups and an American Indian tribe “failed to state a viable claim” that Florida and the Department of Homeland Security violated federal environmental laws.
“Given that the federal government has an undisputed and wide-reaching interest in combatting illegal immigration, and that illegal immigration is a matter of national security and public safety, we think the injunction issued below goes against the public interest,” the majority wrote in the court’s decision.
Both the Department of Homeland Security and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated the ruling.
“Today’s order is a win for the American people, the rule of law and common sense,” the Department of Homeland Security posted on X. “This lawsuit was never about the environmental impacts of turning a developed airport into a detention facility. It has and will always be about open-borders activists and judges trying to keep law enforcement from removing dangerous criminal aliens from our communities, full stop.”
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HUGE VICTORY FOR ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ. Today’s order is a win for the American people, the rule of law and common sense. This lawsuit was never about the environmental impacts of turning a developed airport into a detention facility. It has and will always be about open-borders…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1963695670923026455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The mission continues on immigration enforcement. The media was giddy that somehow Alligator Alcatraz was ‘shutting down.’ And we told them that wasn’t true,” DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1963688691542401406">said</a> in a video message. “There have been illegal aliens continuing to be there and being removed and returned to their home country. But they ran with the narrative because some leftist judge ruled, implausibly, that somehow Florida wasn’t allowed to use our own property to help the federal government in this important mission.”
“So Alligator Alcatraz is, in fact, like we’ve always said, open for business. The mission continues and we’re going to continue leading the way when it comes to immigration enforcement,” DeSantis added.
The Trump administration has partnered with states across the country to open up similar detention centers with names like the Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska and the Speedway Slammer in Indiana.

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Florida’s surgeon general, alongside GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced on Wednesday that the Sunshine State will end all vaccination mandates, including requirements for schools.
“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the government, is working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law — all of them,” Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo told a room of supporters. “Every last one of them.”
Ladapo went on to say that the government has no right to tell parents what to put in their children’s bodies, or their own bodies, sparking loud applause.
“Every last [mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain — and slavery,” he argued. “Who am I, or anyone else … to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?”
“I don’t have that right,” he continued. “Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God. I don’t have that right. Government does not have that right.”
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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED, and the room erupted.
All. Not just COVID. ALL.
JOSEPH LADAPO: &#8220;Every last one is wrong and DRIPS with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell YOU what… <a href="https://t.co/Kah5LscGTo">pic.twitter.com/Kah5LscGTo</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1963254999204442607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
Ending vaccine requirements for schoolchildren would be a seismic change — every state in the nation currently has school vaccine requirements. Additionally, liberal states have increasingly nixed religious exemptions for families looking to opt their children out of some requirements.
An attorney from New York, who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-takes-on-new-york-over-vax-mandate-and-wins">won a major vaccine case</a> in the state, told The Daily Wire that since the state did away with religious exemptions, it has also largely eliminated medical exemptions, despite the government’s claims to still accept them.
“The problem really is these New York State Department of Health regulations that were issued in 2019, that led to hundreds of children who had longstanding medical exemptions suddenly getting them revoked,” attorney Sujata Gibson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-takes-on-new-york-over-vax-mandate-and-wins">said</a>. “Many, many families have had to move out of town, get vaccinated against medical advice — some children have been severely harmed by that.”
It’s unclear how vaccine requirements will be peeled back in the state, but Ladapo does oversee the Florida Department of Health. He also noted that this vision will be possible with the help of state lawmakers, who Ladapo said will “have to make decisions” on these matters.
Gov. DeSantis has led the charge on the issue of <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/12/desantis-medical-freedom-laws?utm_source=chatgpt.com">medical freedom</a> in the wake of the aggressive COVID policies. In 2023, for example, he signed a set of medical freedom measures into law, which banned mask and vaccine mandates and added new conscience protections for health care providers. He flanked Ladapo during the announcement to end all vaccination requirements on Wednesday.
Federally, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to effectively make COVID vaccine mandates illegal by ending “emergency use authorization” for the vaccines.
“We saw the heavy-handed government with the vaccine mandates with the COVID vaccine, no longer is that possible given the landscape that we’ve created,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary <a href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1962895599835009184">said</a>. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-removes-woke-crosswalk-sparks-backlash-from-the-left?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DeSantis+Removes+Woke+Crosswalk%2C+Sparks+Backlash+From+The+Left">DeSantis Removes Woke Crosswalk, Sparks Backlash From The Left</a>

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