Florida legislature declares special session to start tomorrow, DeSantis says legislative leaders are ‘great partners’
Staff report
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez have issued a joint proclamation convening a special session of the legislature from noon on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to noon on Friday, Feb. 14. The session will consider bills to “maximize the state’s ability to coordinate with and assist the Federal Government in its enforcement of federal immigration law and policy.”
The legislation will establish a board to serve as a resource for the enforcement of federal immigration laws and establish responsibilities, restrict benefits for illegal immigrants, create criminal offenses related to noncitizens’ voting, strengthen bail and pretrial detention requirements for unauthorized aliens, provide appropriations to help law enforcement agencies “supplement, not replace,” federal law enforcement for federal immigration law, and create or enhance penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens.
Governor Ron DeSantis released the following statement:
“Florida always leads. We have a responsibility to enact policies that will help end the illegal immigration crisis once and for all, and our Republican leaders have been working tirelessly to do just that. The bills to be considered this week in special session take ideas from the various proposals and bring them together to enact the strongest legislation to enhance interior enforcement and to combat illegal immigration amongst the fifty states.
“The proposed legislation requires the full participation of state and local law enforcement with the Federal government in its enforcement of immigration law, prevents the ‘catch and release’ of illegal aliens, and ensures that illegal aliens who enter Florida are held accountable. It also provides significant resources to bolster these efforts.
“I want to thank the Florida Legislature for convening in special session on this important topic. In working together on this bill, Senate President Ben Albritton and Speaker Danny Perez have been great partners, and we have produced an aggressive bill that we can stand fully behind.
“I thank the members of the Florida House and Senate for delivering on behalf of the people who sent us here. I also thank Agricultural Commissioner Wilton Simpson for his support of this revised product to help combat illegal immigration. With the enactment of these policies, Florida will help the Trump Administration to deliver on the President’s historic mandate to end illegal immigration. This is a big win for the people of Florida and demonstrates that we will continue to lead.”
” illegal immigration crisis” – What crisis? Crime is down, employment up, wages up. Define the crisis.
“President’s historic mandate” – There is no Trump mandate for anything since he failed to win even half of the vote, i.e., most Americans voted for someone else, his margin over his main opponent is the smallest since 2000 and smaller than Hillary’s when she won the popular vote in 2016. There is no mandate and anyone who says there is is lying.
“We have a responsibility to enact policies that will help end the illegal immigration crisis once and for all, and our Republican leaders have been working tirelessly to do just that.” – They worked tirelessly in the fall to kill an immigration bill supported by border agents and written by conservative Senator Langford. DeSantis spoke out against it. He, Trump, and the GOP are complete hypocrites on the issue.
Crisis: Immigrants like eating eggs. In fact, there are so many immigrants here eating eggs that there is a shortage and prices have doubled. Removing the immigrants will lower grocery prices at Publix back to 1950’s levels. God bless President for Life Musk. That immigrant knows immigrants and how bad they all are.
Why if we had decent immigration laws in 1930 Scottish riff raff maids like Mary MacLeod would have been barred and America would have stayed great.
Hey everybody, Jazzman voted for the fruitbag mayor of tallahassee. Har har har
Dem Bot! Puking out the party line! No one in their right mind would vote for Harris, nor should they put up with being accused of misogyny by the original Soros funded candidate, O’Bama!
How pathetic! You should be on TV with the Democratic idiots on Capital Hill, Waters, Schumer, Bernie Boy, Warren, and the Squids!
Said immigration bill had so much more Democratic Pork, why would anyone who is pro American and not Anti American vote for it.
Tell us about the Democratic pork in the bill written by the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
Nothing else you wrote is of substance
Idiot! The proof is all over daily DOGE reports!
Completely unnecessary, waste of time, and the usual grandstanding from DeSantis. FL will do whatever President Musk and his henchmen, Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller tells them to do.
DeSantis is angling for another government role in 2026 and is desperate to get back in the good graces of the White House.
Boo Hoo!
Republicans keep winning….and the Dems? Why of course they do what the do best…. whining & crying. Wonder why they don’t want Musk to uncover where all the taxpayer was wasted on woke & green new deal BS.
Exactly. Crying and protesting because the American people are going to find out the truth about all this DEI “discrimination, exclusion, indoctrination” and the money fraudulently wasted.