Posted on 02/13/2021 9:45:00 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to reports of the Biden White House considering imposing travel restrictions on the state, telling reporters that it would be a “political attack against the people of Florida” as well as “unconstitutional,” “unwise,” and “unjust.”
“We will oppose it 100 percent,” DeSantis said Thursday in reaction to the reports of the Biden White House considering domestic travel restrictions on states such as Florida and California due to fears of spreading variant cases of the Chinese coronavirus.
“It would not be based in science. It would purely be a political attack against the people of Florida. And it’s unclear why they would even try talking about that,” the governor said.
DeSantis highlighted the seeming hypocrisy of the administration, noting it would impose a ban on Americans who seek to “travel freely throughout our country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border unmolested.”
It “would be a ridiculous, but very damaging, farce,” DeSantis noted.
He is not the only leader to make such a comparison. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have also observed the discrepancies in the Democrat-led White House’s tactics, which is also reportedly considering requiring domestic travelers to take a coronavirus test before traveling.
“Tests for Americans before domestic flights? By dismantling immigration enforcement, the Biden administration invited a wave of illegal immigrants — and they’re allowed in without COVID [Chinese coronavirus] tests,” Cotton said.
“To Biden, illegal immigrants come before Americans,” he added:
Grassley made a similar observation days later.
“Can’t fly into USA w/o showing negative test for virus but Pres Biden will let ppl who illegally walked across the border do so w/o testing. Is that protecting our citizens?” Grassley asked:
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NOTHING the Demonrats do is based on Science!!
They are NOTHING but IDIOTS
PERIOD!
To Biden, illegal aliens come before American citizens.
can the central government prohibit travel to a particular state?
infection rates are crashing. the variant is the new invisible thing we’re all supposed to be afraid of.
Florida’s governor is my new hero.
Scientism not science.
If Florida is subject to travel restrictions, then New York and California ought to be too.
DeSantis/Noem 2024
And we know the government may NOT stop an American citizen from entering the states, ergo, the directive you must have a covid test 3-days prior to returning to the states may be “required” but it may not stop an American citizen from coming home. That simply is unlawful. . .especially when xiden places no such restriction on non-American citizens. Oh, and I have to interrupt my business meetings to make time for a covid test!?
If you come home without a covid test 3-days prior, then you can be placed in quarantine, not denied entry.
I expect this demand on American citizens to be challenged in court.
So, I travel to the UK for a week, then before I can come home I MUST have a covid test. . .but UK NHS is broken and gawd knows how long it will take to get the test. . .
This is madness.
They may be idiots, but first and foremost, they are simply evil.
In that case maybe they'll ask Virginia to raise three regiments to invade South Carolina Florida. /s
This guy so needs to be POTUS.
This would of course be the insane act of a complete tyrant. However, I’d almost be OK with it for a while because it would 100% guarantee that FL would vote against Biden or much more likely Kamala in 2024. And DeSantis and his resistance against Dem authoritarianism would make him a folk hero of legendary proportions. What better way for the people to see how sort of “leader” Biden is than to watch him go full dictator against a red state?
The Schnitzel Republic (expat in Germany) has an article about "mutations" springing up in Germany. They now have the "Manus-mutation" (Brazil), the "British-mutation" and "South African-mutation" - both twice as deadly at the original, while the "Manus" is THREE, yes THREE times as deadly.
It reminds me of the ending in "Wargames" when alternative nuclear war scenarios scrolled across the screen: "Hong Kong Variant", "Nicaraguan Preemptive", "Albanian Decoy", etc. Scores were listed.
So you can see where this is leading in the U.S. - as Covid ies out, new "mutations" will keep being discovered, dragging out the mask and social-distancing even longer.
Close our northern state line, no one in!
Yankees go home!
Yes, he is mine too!
Gov. Ron DeSantis needs to announce that state bureaucrats have found an infestation of cooties in all federal buildings; therefore, federal employees can no longer work in those buildings.
And the governor’s environmental czar estimates that it will take four to six months to rid the buildings of the infestation.
They are rightfully afraid of him. He won 18 percent of the female black vote, against a black candidate because he stressed school choice.
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