North America is still recovering from the last Ice Age. After the ice retreated there are a lot of niches in the environment that are now unfilled, that is why southern species like the armadillo are migrating up through Texas to Florida. Any tropical species. L that makes the Florida will do very well until the next glacial period.
It's amazing how much money we waste trying to keep these tropical species out of Florida. Nature will go where it can go and all the Pointdexter with badges and federal Service can't do crap about it.
“Nature will go where it can ...”
Imbecilic to posit that trying to keep out ruinous invasive species opposes Nature.
How ‘bout importing brown recluse’, black mambas, Wuhan bats, etc to your house?
after all they’ll get there eventually, right?