The governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, promised on Wednesday vetoed a broad bill on immigration, at the last escalation of a confrontation in the state legislature between the governor and the republican legislative leadership of the State, who have played on which proposals would be better carried out the repression of the immigration of President Donald Trump.
The bill, which was promoted by the president of the House of Representatives, Daniel Perez, and the president of the Senate, Ben Albritton, assigns 500 million dollars to strengthen the state and local coordination with the forces of the federal order. It would also have meant increased criminal sentences for migrants without legal permission to commit crimes in the United States.
In a challenge to the governor, who has a mandate limit and has used his executive authority as no other Florida leader in recent memory, the bill gives up the Desantis supervision authority on immigration procedures and grants it to the commissioner State agriculture, Wilton Simpson. Desantis has criticized the measure how to put the “fox in charge of the chicken coop.”
The morning after the measure was approved, Desantis promised to veto the bill, which criticized as “weak” and “decaffeinated.”
“We must have the strongest law in immigration. We cannot be weak, “Desantis published on X on Wednesday morning.” The veto pen is ready. “
Now the question is whether the legislature dominated by the State Republicans can gather enough support to cancel the governor’s veto, after some members of the Republican party voted against the measure.
In hours of emotional debate, the Democrats pressed the sponsors of the bill on a provision that would deprive the students of Florida of the state registration if they are in the country illegally, but some said they would vote in favor of the general bill if The issue of registration was modified.
“If the bad drink was not here,” said Democratic Senator Shevrin Jones during the project debate, “I am almost sure that I would have obtained a unanimous vote.”
After Desantis launched a public pressure campaign in cable news and social networks, Republican leaders say they worked with the Trump government to amend the bill, nicknamed the Trump act, to help mobilize state resources and premises to carry out the president’s agenda. However, they resisted adding some of the governor’s priorities, such as creating a legal presumption that people in the country are illegally a risk of escape.
For hours on Tuesday, legislators deliberated on the bill of more than 80 pages that included more than 500 million dollars in funds to hire new agents, equip and train local agencies, and reimburse the counties for renting a detention space to the detention space Immigration and Customs Control Service of the United States (ICE).
Desantis has been criticizing the legislation since the Republican leaders announced it, what they did in an surprising act of challenge, by dismissing the governor’s call to a special session and calling their own.
After the bill was approved on Tuesday night, Perez seemed to address the criticism of the governor and his allies, when he told its members that they “do not get distracted” for all the noise on social networks.
“Threating others to get what you want is not leadership, it’s immaturity,” Perez said Tuesday night.
The bill was approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate to a large extent according to partisan lines, although six Republicans in the Senate and one in the Chamber voted against, including some of the governor’s allies.
Republican representative Mike Caruso, whose Palm Beach County district includes the Mar-A-Lago property of President Trump, described the weak bill and said he would not stop people to illegally immigrate to the country.
On Monday, Albritton and Perez emphasized that they wanted to address the immigration crisis but did not agree with the governor’s proposals to criminally accuse local police officers who did not comply with state and federal immigration orders.
The Democrats had criticized the bill as a hurried and some of their provisions as cruel, specifically when retreating state registration rates for migrants found in the country illegally that are currently enrolled in school. The law benefited some 6,500 students in Florida during fiscal year 2023-2024 and was promulgated by then governor Rick Scott in 2014.
The Democrats had also pressed to protect the schools and places of cult of Florida from possible raids or records, in view of the requirement of the bill that all government employees “cooperate to the greatest extent possible” with the application of the law of the law Federal Immigration.
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