DeSantis signs bill expanding controversial migrant transportation program

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a costs broadening a questionable state program to transfer migrants.

” Florida is utilizing all tools readily available to secure our residents from Biden’s open border policies,” DeSantis wrote on Twitter. “I am pleased to have actually signed legislation to continue the program of transferring unlawful aliens to sanctuary jurisdictions. I thank the legislature for keeping this important tool.”.

The procedure permits the DeSantis administration to get where the guv ended in 2015 when he sent out 2 airplanes of migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The action triggered several claims and concerns regarding whether the DeSantis administration had actually broken state law by assembling migrants in Texas. The spending plan law that produced the $12 million program defined that the cash was reserved to transfer “unapproved aliens from this state.”.

Legislators voted recently along celebration lines to get rid of the limitation on the area of the migrants. The procedure authorized by the Republican-controlled legislature likewise moved control of the program from the Florida Department of Transport to the Florida Department of Emergency Situation Management, a relocation that would permit the DeSantis administration to award countless dollars in no-bid agreements to help with the transport of migrants.

The expense worked instantly after DeSantis’ finalizing. Under the legislation, $10 million is reserved to money the program through June. DeSantis in his suggested spending plan designated another $12 million to continue the program.

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