Florida lawmakers and Gov. DeSantis have reached a compromise on immigration enforcement law after weeks of debate. The new bill will create a state immigration executive committee led by DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet to oversee immigration enforcement. Funding local law enforcement agencies to support immigration enforcement through undocumented immigrants.
Florida lawmakers held another special session on Tuesday to boost immigration enforcement two weeks after reaching a deadlock with Gov. Ron DeSantis on the issue.
House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said the bill passed by Congress this week is similar to the bill already passed with several adjustments. This week’s special session is the third in recent weeks.
He emphasized that lawmakers are participants in conversation, not recipients of instructions from DeSantis,” and that the bill “will “treat the issue of illegal immigration and to fight thoughtfully against the means and methods we have chosen.” I’ve become more proactive.”
DeSantis congratulated the compromise action late Monday when the special session was announced, saying the bill was the “strongest law to strengthen internal enforcement and combat illegal immigration” in the country.
The deal came after Desantis blows up a previous bill passed by Congress. DeSantis called the bill “weak” and called it similar to “making the foxes in charge of chickens” by egg farmer Simpson, who is in charge of immigration enforcement.
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Senate President R-Wauchula Ben Albritton said it was okay for GOP leaders to assert they appreciate their contributions to the bill.
However, he pointed out that Vitriol from some online critics went too far that many people use social media that is not their true names. It included a death threat to Simpson, he told his room.
“Through the courage of careless keyboards, there is no excuse for the actions of those who intentionally inflamed violence against good people and his family,” Alburitt said.
Law creates new panels to combat illegal immigration
One of the bills (HB 1C/SB 2C) will implement immigration enforcement under the state’s Immigration Enforcement Committee, consisting of three Attorney Generals, Chief Financial Officer and Agriculture Secretary, including DeSantis and all of the Florida Cabinet Secretaries. I’ll do it. The board coordinates with the federal government to enforce state immigration laws.
Albritton said the move to put immigration enforcement under the governor and cabinet is a “better model.”
“The government is most effective when ideas flow and people are communicating, and they are learning from each other,” he said.
DeSantis will appoint the next Attorney General and state CFO: He already says his Chief of Staff James Usmierer will replace Ashley Moody as an AG now that she has become a US Senator. Current CFO Jimmy Patronis is expected to win a bid for a seat in the Panhandle in April this year, creating another vacancies.
Other parts of the bill will increase penalties for illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Members of illegal immigrant gangs who commit crimes must have mandatory text. Undocumented immigrants who commit forced felony must be detained before trial. It also provides $250 million grants to local law enforcement agencies to programs that enforce immigration laws, providing bonuses to executives involved in the operation of immigration and customs enforcement.
Many of these provisions were promoted by DeSantis in the original appeal of a special session last month. However, his demand for restrictions on money sent by illegal immigrants to families in their home countries was removed from the bill.
He also sought the power to deport his own foreign-undocumented immigrants, reduced to simply coordinate with the federal government for deportation.
Two other invoices (HB 3C/SB 4C, HB 5C/SB 6C) are also ready to pass later in the week.
HB 3C/SB 4C: The bill is a first-degree misdemeanor who enters the state as an undocumented immigrant, sentenced to a minimum of nine months, and is found guilty of a capital offence. A death sentence must be issued against the death sentence. HB5C/SB 6C: In this bill, lawmakers ask the Department of Homeland Security to provide training to local police to help enforce immigration laws.
Lawmakers are scheduled to hear these bills at the committee on Wednesday before handing them over the floors of each room on Thursday. However, Congress has not yet sent to DeSantis, who has vowed to reject the previous bill.
For Albritton, an argument has ended among Florida Republicans over immigration. I would never support that type of department. Compromise based on principles makes us stronger,” he said.
Still, Jason Pizzo, the leader of the Senate Democrats in North Miami, called out GOP colleagues, saying some of them “raising” hatred on social media.
“We’ll put an end to that,” he said. “I’ll push it back. These are the people on your side of the aisle… many of you amplify it and feed it.”
This story contains previously published material. Gray Rohrer is a reporter for the USA Today Network-Florida Capital Bureau and can visit grohrer@gannett.com. USA Today Network’s State Watchdog Reporter AnaGoñi-Lessan-Florida can visit agonilessan@gannett.com.
