Posted on 03/16/2024 9:31:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As a new illegal immigration concern impacts the United States, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced that his state interdicted suspected illegal aliens fleeing Haiti.
On Friday, DeSantis said that Florida stopped a boat filled with 25 illegal immigrants, firearms, and drugs from landing in his state on February 29. He also confirmed that five of them were unaccompanied children.
The governor said that the illegal immigrants were part of a human smuggling operation. DeSantis expressed his frustration and criticism of the Biden Administration for failing to do its job of securing the border and making the United States safe. He said that it shouldn’t be left up to the states to protect its border, calling on the president to step up and take care of the crisis he created.
Just recently, within the last couple of weeks, and this will be made public later today, our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants, from Haiti. In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms, they had drugs, they had night vision gear and they were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks.
So that vessel was interdicted near the Sebastian Inlet, and those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation. So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this and they’re going to continue to do it, and we’ve got an incredible amount of resources that are now on display to be able to prevent. Now, what’s different today than maybe in the past? Well, part of it is we have more resources that the state has been willing to put up.
And this is not really our responsibility; this is the federal government’s responsibility. The Coast Guard does by and large a good job but they’re undermanned; they’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps.
I think one difference now is — and we see this with our folks that we have at the border — you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world, Haitians can get to the United States easier by flying to Mexico and walking across the border. And so I anticipate, if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks who are trying to flee (Haiti), if they want to come to the United States they’re probably going to go to Mexico and then come in through the border knowing that Biden will just let everybody in.
The news came shortly after DeSantis’s office fact-checked a claim that said Florida agents “Do nothing” regarding illegal immigration.
“Vessels stopped are repatriated to country of origin,” said DeSantis spokesman Bryan Griffin said. “And if individuals are found swimming, they can be detained by Florida LEOs and relinquished to the Coast Guard for repatriation.”
BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis announces Florida agents have interdicted a vessel that had 25 suspected illegal aliens from Haiti
"They had firearms, they had drugs [...] That vessel was interdicted [and] those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation." pic.twitter.com/LIRBuEwFiO— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) March 15, 2024
IF true: “only the federal government can create or enforce immigration law”
Then it follows, that U.S. “Sanctuary Cities” are un-constitutional.
And other considerations.
If it’s bigger than a 💩can sink it. It’s a target. Old submarine motto. As an old submariner I still like it. Sorry skimmer sailors not talking USS targets. Regards
Nice, very nice. 👌
Or they’ll get lawyers so they can stay or they’ll be kicked back to where they came and come back on another boat. We’ll be stuck with them.
Agree.
The real outrage here is that they weren’t intercepted by the Coast Guard. Is Joe Biden ordering our Coast Guard to stand down? Is he allowing this to happen on purpose?
You must be scared to death that DeSantis is releasing the Epstein grand jury papers. It’s the right thing to do. But you are bashing a conservative again because you are so liberal, it seeps out of your pores.
Seized a boat from entering -- doesn't even make sense.
Seized a boat trying to enter -- ok
Prevented a boat from entering -- ok
Sarah Arnold must have been very excited when she wrote the headline.
The word immigrants, even illegal immigrants, is unsuitable for armed drug using invaders.
You would think they could find an unemployed English major to check their grammar.
He is a veteran and a great Governor.
He just chose the wrong year to run for President.
I agree - if only he hadn’t listened to the whispers and turned on President Trump instead of waiting until 2028.
That happened in my town. FWC caught the vessel coming in the inlet.
https://myfwc.com/news/all-news/sebastian-cow-324/
His rule is steller.
His campaigning is less so.
DeSantis Seized a Boat...
Wish we’d had him crossing the Delaware.
What a splash he’d have made, returning to Manila.
NORAD will be on the lookout for him, come Christmas Eve.
Who cares if Joe gets mad? He has made us, the public, plenty mad already for not doing his job. Let him get mad at himself or those who are telling him what to do & how to act. America has had enough of this crap, to be quite sure!
With that statement, you are going to really piss off some of these Desantis haters. They might soil their diapers over that.
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