DeSantis: ‘We Are Not a Sanctuary State’

DeSantis: “We take what’s happening at the southern border very seriously, unlike some, and unlike the president of the United States who has refused to lift the finger to secure that border, and you’ve had millions and millions of people pouring across illegally, record amount of fentanyl coming into our country. It is absolutely killing Americans in record numbers. Of course, you have criminal aliens, but just the sheer number of people it’s not the way you run a country. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of folks that come across, where do they want to end up? A lot want to come to — because everyone wants to come to Florida. And so we’ve — we’ve worked on innovative ways to be able to protect the state of Florida from the impact of Biden’s border policies. And so that’s involved a number of things. We’ve had different operations in the Panhandle where we’ve stopped human smugglers, there have been criminal charges brought, there have been drugs seized. There have been a whole bunch of things. But yes, if you have folks that are inclined to think Florida is a good place, our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state, and it’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures.”