DeSantis said his office was not involved in discussions about the bill that passed Tuesday, which he called “weak, weak, weak.”
During a roundtable event on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his disapproval of the sweeping immigration bill that Florida lawmakers passed on Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Central Florida Wednesday lashing out at the newly passed "TRUMP Act," a sweeping bill addressing illegal immigration that came from the Florida Legislature's special session last night.
They think if they put Trump's name on it, that somehow that's going to pull the wool over people's eyes,' DeSantis said over bill.
DeSantis was an officer and Navy lawyer at Gitmo in 2006, when prisoners committed to a mass hunger strike. Guards there ultimately restrained and force-fed many of them using nasal tubes — a practice the United Nations Human Rights Commission deemed a form of torture.
TALLAHASSEE—Amid the feud over the illegal immigration special session between Gov. Ron DeSantis, House Speaker Danny Perez, and Senate President Ben Albritto
House Speaker Danny Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton pushed back in a way the governor hasn’t seen before.
Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed a plan that includes boosting criminal penalties for undocumented immigrants.
The Legislature said its bill, approved late Tuesday, does what President Donald Trump wants as far as cracking down on illegal immigration.
DeSantis said the new legislation would hinder his ability to marshal law enforcement agencies around the state to execute deportations.
The veto decision represents further decay of the quickly deteriorating relationship between the governor and Legislature.