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Jacksonville Mayor gets backlash from local leaders over immigration comments on London radio
actionnewsjax.com ^ | October 16, 2024 | ActionNewsJax.com News Staff

Posted on 10/18/2024 6:48:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Several Jacksonville officials are calling on Mayor Donna Deegan to apologize after comments made in an interview with Times Radio.

Deegan is currently in London on business, but is also speaking out on the presidential race and former President Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies.

Deegan agreed that there are problems with the immigration system, and a “tough border law” should be passed, and then had this to say:

“To put people in what would really amount to a concentration camp-type situation, to round them out of the country doesn’t seem to me to be a very American thing to do,” she said.

Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters also came out against the mayor’s comments and an endorsement of Trump. Here is the statement he released:

“Mayor Deegan’s statement to The Times (London) regarding President Trump’s border and immigration policy are shocking and reckless. As the Sheriff of Jacksonville, it is disappointing to see our Mayor equate a commonsense immigration policy with one of the most horrific atrocities of the 20th century.

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KEYWORDS: beeotch; demagogicparty; demagogue; donnadeegan; florida; jacksonville; tkwaters

1 posted on 10/18/2024 6:48:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Libs love to trash America when on foreign soil.


2 posted on 10/18/2024 6:56:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

the sheriff should arrest the filthy ho ...


3 posted on 10/18/2024 7:01:17 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: V_TWIN

“To put people in what would really amount to a concentration camp-type situation, to round them out of the country doesn’t seem to me to be a very American thing to do,” she said.


Who built the cages, Donna?


4 posted on 10/18/2024 7:03:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bankwalker

but.. I thought liberals loved FDR?


5 posted on 10/18/2024 7:04:46 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: bankwalker

Our sheriff is no nonsense, competent guy.


6 posted on 10/18/2024 7:06:30 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: V_TWIN

No doubt the ‘mare’ leaves her home unsecured at all times because it wouldn’t be very American to deny folks shelter.


7 posted on 10/18/2024 7:08:54 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Sheriff is a black guy who had visited Israel some years back for visit w their lea.


8 posted on 10/18/2024 7:09:24 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: dfwgator

“Who built the cages, Donna?”

Interesting observation. In fact, during one of the first local reports of the slimy mayor’s comment, they showed the “cages” that obama built and filled with undesirables. (They haven’t used that foot age again, by the way.)


9 posted on 10/18/2024 7:11:17 AM PDT by Afterguard
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To: V_TWIN

That woman is a democrat.

Formerly an attractive local TV broadcaster she was elected for the purpose of taking down another large urban city. She is a hardened liberal.


10 posted on 10/18/2024 7:28:18 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: dfwgator

Donna’s prior history was she was a “news reader” on the local TV news. She left to run her sponsored annual foot race for breast cancer. Parlayed that into an unsuccessful (thankfully) run for Congress and then the run for Jax Mayor, winning over a dysfunctional group. My sense is she is bidding her time to run for higher office.


11 posted on 10/18/2024 8:04:31 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: V_TWIN

It doesn’t have to be a concentration camp... they could spread them out so they’d be diluted in a huge desert camp. :-)


12 posted on 10/18/2024 9:10:32 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: V_TWIN

INVADING AMERICA wasn’t ‘VERY AMERICAN’ either


13 posted on 10/18/2024 1:48:17 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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