Posted on 02/01/2024 12:06:45 PM PST by thegagline
Up to 1,000 Florida National Guard troops will be sent to the Texas border to stop the influx of migrants, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday morning.
The soldiers will be deployed “based on Texas’ needs,” according to a press release on the Florida governor’s website.
The Florida State Guard will also be sent to Texas to support Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to repel migrants at the border — which is the first time the group has been deployed out of state, the release noted.
These deployments are in addition to officers from the Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement who are already at the border, the office said.
The governor, 45, made the announcement standing in front of members of the Florida National Guard and an orange sign that read “Stop the Invasion” in bold, black letters.
“States have every right to defend their sovereignty and we are pleased to increase our support to Texas as the Lone Star State works to stop the invasion across the border,” DeSantis added. “Our reinforcements will help Texas to add additional barriers, including razor wire along the border. We don’t have a country if we don’t have a border,” he added.
The former Republican presidential candidate also slammed the Biden administration’s perceived inaction at the border in the wake of US Customs and Border Protection’s record 2.5 million illegal immigrant encounters in 2023.
“[President] Biden has the authority to close this border today. If he wanted to, he lacks the will to get the job done. He lacks the capacity to see the problem for what it is and to get the job done,” DeSantis said, according to Fox News Digital. ***
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Please, please send your posts to the DNC.
Perhaps you can convince them to keep Bidet around until November.
desanctimonious will keep his name in the news somehow, until the rnc convention either nominates Trump as the republican presidential nominee....
Or they commit suicide, and kick him off the ballot, and put a swamp GOPe rino uniparty person in his place....
And desanctimonious still thinks he has a chance....
Give Ron his due, this is a great move. He’s a fantastic governor.
yup all these “desantis is great governor” folks are extremely short sighted. Desantuis has allowed illegal immigration in his own state effecting his own people and beyond his whole governorship!
If he wanted to appear to be on our Country’s side he would have sealed FL borders years ago, when he first became FL gov.
He only does what’s needed when it will help HIM in some way.
Thanks! Oklahoma, how about you?
Trump's SOTU speeches were quite good. There was no MSM anger against Pelosi when she tore up his speech in front of the nation on national TV. Now that was anger!
I am so sick and tired of whiny people like you! You and my fellow whiny passive “Trump is mean” Americans are disgusting spineless jellyfish.
how many are dead or harmed in some way in by illegals that came in through FL, and stayed in FL or on Ron’s order were shipped to other states, or happened to travel on their own thru FL to other states because Ron didn’t seal FKL borders when he became Gov?
How much death and hurt came by Ron’s allowing illegals in as “such a great governor”?
deal in truth not feel good talking points.
Good job, DeSantis!!!
SAemms it is you doing the poo flinging and playing the butthurt woe is Ron game.
To defend Texas, they may need to shoot the other way.
Well said.
You lack the mental capacity to read.
You also lack the mental capacity to follow a thread.
I find neither of those facts surprising.
Have a nice day.
What could've been. Oh well.
To be fair, Mr. Trump is not the governor of any State; in fact he has zero political power at present. What he did or failed to do between Jan 2017 and Jan 2021 is fair game, of course.
Indeed it is.
And during that time period, illegal border crossing numbers were a small fraction of today’s flood.
He’s been sending National Guard for a long time. He created the Florid State Guard and sent them so Beijing Biden can’t nationalize them.
I guess only a Paul Ryan RINO would so something like that. Certainly not the guy who had fewer deportations than 0bama.
It’s a great thing to do, unless DeSantis does it, in which case, it’s horrible, dangerous, criminal, and inspired by Paul Rayna and the Bushes.
(These people have DDS.)
He lost donors because he wouldn’t do what they wanted. They went to Tricky Nikki.
The problem wiht his presidential campaign was that he was too nice and wouldn’t go Scorched Earth, like Trump did to him.
That’s because you were fed the #Cult45 BS and swallowed it whole. Please put down the Kool Aid.
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