As for the ones just discovered at Metro airport, if escaped, they would never survive our winters.
But that's not to say that whoever brought them in and likely tried to raise them as a potential food source wouldn't try to export them out of the state.....
Send whoever brought those pests into our country to Gitmo!
Florida’s python problem is fairly well known. Sooner or later some idiot will turn lose breeding pairs of Mambas and Cobras down there and they’ll really know what problems are then.