DeSantis was an officer and Navy lawyer at Gitmo in 2006, when prisoners committed to a mass hunger strike. Guards there ultimately restrained and force-fed many of them using nasal tubes — a practice the United Nations Human Rights Commission deemed a form of torture.
House Speaker Danny Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton pushed back in a way the governor hasn’t seen before.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Central Florida Wednesday lashing out at the newly passed "TRUMP Act," a sweeping bill addressing illegal immigration that came from the Florida Legislature's special session last night.
Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to veto the recently passed immigration bill backed by Republicans in the legislature.
Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed a plan that includes boosting criminal penalties for undocumented immigrants.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized members of his own party for refusing to hold a special session to help implement President Donald Trump 's immigration policies. In a post and video shared on social media, DeSantis accused Florida Republicans of putting forward a "substantially weaker" legislative proposal.
They think if they put Trump's name on it, that somehow that's going to pull the wool over people's eyes,' DeSantis said over bill.
DeSantis said the new legislation would hinder his ability to marshal law enforcement agencies around the state to execute deportations.
The Legislature said its bill, approved late Tuesday, does what President Donald Trump wants as far as cracking down on illegal immigration.
The Florida Legislature rejected some of Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposals for an immigration bill and, in the name of Donald Trump, introduced its own.
Our number one goal is to work together with President Trump. Anyone that says anything otherwise is ... not telling the truth.'