Posted on 05/17/2019 12:58:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Trump administration is preparing to move hundreds of immigrants from overcrowded camps along the U.S. border to Broward and Palm Beach counties, local officials said Thursday.
Broward Mayor Mark Bogen and Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said they were told to expect two planeloads of immigrants each week, starting in about two weeks. The 270 weekly passengers — about 1,000 each month — would be split, with half going to Palm Beach County and half to Broward.
Confusion and disbelief swirled late Thursday around the reports, which were not confirmed or acknowledged by the Trump administration. Local members of Congress, Florida’s two Republican senators and even Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they didn’t know about it.
“The governor’s office was not informed of this decision,” his spokeswoman said in an email. “Florida counties do not have the resources to accommodate an influx of illegal immigrants.”
In an afternoon news conference organized after the news broke, Sheriff Bradshaw said the Miami border patrol operations chief “came up” to talk to him about it earlier this week.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, a DeSantis appointee, also said he was advised, but not by border patrol. In an email, Tony said the information, which “was also shared with me by my trusted colleague” Bradshaw, was not confirmed by state or federal officials. He said he passed it on to Bogen so Broward could be prepared, and is “currently awaiting a scheduled calendar meeting with my County Commissioners.”
The immigrants are families who crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, and who indicated they were Florida-bound, Bradshaw said. They will be processed at U.S. Customs and Border Protection Offices in Dania Beach and in Riviera Beach, and released into the community, expected to return for hearings, he said.
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They won’t vote. Florida requires picture ID to vote (only a few will get around this). Next, the counties are blue, but once they get a taste freeloading immigrants and added crime they’ll change their tune. This might actually drive more votes Trump’s way.
Immigrants centers are overflowing even after the latest court win. He has to dump them somewhere, and deep counties throughout the country might switch voting habits once they get a taste of the damage illegals cause. Instead of ruining borders town. This is also a slap in the face of pro-immigrant Rubio. He is squealing like a stuck pig about being overwhelmed.
And this will encourage the citizens of those counties not to vote Democrat.
Right into his own community. A master stroke. How can they complain?
Technically, Florida officially does not have “sanctuary cities”. But both Broward and Palm Beach counties have been Democrat strongholds for years, with Republicans getting short shrift in terms of the vote count, often the result of what may have been open vote fraud in a number of elections in the past. Late delivery of polling results, instances of “lost” ballots, an inordinate number of ineligible voters on the rolls, and a haughty “so what” attitude of many of the elected officials at every level.
They are being pawned off on terminally left wing sanctuary cities
Funny, that is what the rest of us have been saying for months.
What's the problem? The welcome wagon has added a free travel service. The 'rats should be happy.
Palm Beach and Broward counties should take in about 300,000 illegals to even get close to parity with South Texas.
Praise God (YHVH)!
Excellent...excellent...excellent!
Hydrogen, worked great for the Hindenburg.
I’d send 100% to California and New York, the two states that will never vote Republican.
pro-illegal alien amnesty Rubio
They want to flip FL blue, of course. This is our leadership sending thousands of illegals to a red state. Treason.
According to the article these immigrants are families who crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, and who indicated they were Florida-bound. Likely already have family in Boward since they have refugee Resettlement programs already in place.
“They are being pawned off on terminally left wing sanctuary cities”
Sounds like a good plan to me.
A national problem should be shared with the entire nation,not just sanctuary cities. If the entire nation was 5% illegals all this “bread and circuses” crap would go on the back burner.
One more reason Florida is off the list of possible retirement spots.
Don’t know about the whole state, but I had to show ID to vote.
“They’re not eligible to vote!”
Awwwww... that kind of innocence is almost refreshing! Of course, they will all be denied a chance to vote. Illegals never vote.
LOL
“They won’t vote. Florida requires picture ID to vote (only a few will get around this). Next, the counties are blue, but once they get a taste freeloading immigrants and added crime they’ll change their tune.”
Again ROFLMAO. That kind of wide-eyed innocence is almost refreshing! Of course, they’ll NEVER be able to get a photo ID and there isn’t a ell-funded and organized machine to register them!
And I almost forgot, the hard core leftists will get a dose of freeloading immigrants and start voting republican. I mean, that’s what happened in NYC after they got flooded. LOL
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