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Governor Ron DeSantis deploys more Florida personnel to secure the southern border

Governor DeSantis greets FHP Troopers on Feb. 23

Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis deployed more National Guardsmen and Florida Highway Patrol Troopers to Texas to assist Texas officials as they work to secure our southern border. Fifty National Guardsmen departed Pensacola in this wave, alongside 76 Florida Highway Patrol Troopers.

“The Biden Border Crisis has made every state a border state, requiring the states to step up and defend our territorial sovereignty,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “I want to extend my sincerest thanks to every law enforcement officer, National Guardsman, and member of the State Guard who is serving in Texas.”

Since 2021, Florida has sent more than 2,400 law enforcement officers to assist Texas at the southern border. With those officers, the state has also sent more than 600 assets, including boats, command buses, and ATVs. 

To watch the Governor’s full remarks from the send off, click here.

  • What a bunch of bs. Who pays to deploy Florida’s National Guard to Texas? Let Texas handle it themselves. Typical DeSantis move. What’s up with the raising homeowners insurance? That’s an issue he won’t address.

    • Aww… WHO PAYS for all the FREEBIES the illegals and democrats receive at the EXPENSE and DETRIMENT of
      TAXPAYERS?? Duh, genius!
      Oh, nevermind, you are one of those that never gets tired of pissing away other peoples money so long as it’s to YOUR benefit! Florida is blood red these days, purple Georgia isn’t all that far!

      • Help me out here Fox, I haven’t kept up with this. Didn’t Trump build that wall along our entire southern border with Mexican money? When I heard that Congressional Republicans insisted they wouldn’t vote for funding for the Ukraine and Israel until they got funding for more border security first, then voted against a bill which provided only that – none of the usual democratic ideas like “dreamers” – I got really confused. When it came out that Trump wants the problem, not a solution, so he’ll have a campaign issue, is he going to build a 2nd wall, and who’s paying for it? Zelensky or Putin. I just can’t keep up.

        Also, I believe in Florida 1st so I think DeSantis should send our boys to the FloraBama bar on our western border, but no further. What do you think?

        • Nope, democrats along with many republicans refused to work with Trump on anything other than pissing away trillions of taxpayers money thanks to the plandemic! Trumps da had to get creative to to get 5’ of border wall constructed!
          American TAXPAYERS are paying for it like they do everything else the 🪳 in dc want to piss away money on! Unfortunately, 40 percent of “Americans” don’t pay a d*mn dime in federal taxes!

          That garbage bill didn’t SECURE anything! Even cnn had the decency to PRINT that FACT!

          “ What the border bill would and wouldn’t dol”

          Analysis by Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
          8 minute read
          Updated 9:43 AM EST, Tue February 6, 2024

          USA TAXPAYERS are being fleeced for billons paying for illegals/migrants clothing, cellphones, food, healthcare, shelter and any thing else they want/need thanks to the 🪳 in dc and blue area governments Al over the country!

          • So, the Democrats were supposed to get the Mexicans to pay for the wall? Thanks, I missed that part of Trump’s promise. Damn those guys.

            I also heard that the border guard union – which supported Trump in 2020 – backed the recent bill, but that must have been a lie based on your information.

            Sounds like the same crap as the last time there was a bipartisan immigration bill – as if compromising to pass legislation is how things get done instead of a party with 51% of the vote in Congress just demanding their way — in 2013 when Speaker Boner (sp?) ended that compromising crap by refusing to let a bipartisan bill on immigration get to the House floor where it definitely would have passed. Close call that one, but thank god we still have the status quo Trump wants!

          • At no point did I type LW 🪳 were supposed to make Mexico pay for the wall. Anyone with a functioning brain knows LW 🪳s believe Americans should be slaves to the 🪳s dc and that we TAXPAYERS have to pay for the worlds problems while the 🪳s enrich themselves!

            I couldn’t care less what the border patrol union guy says, they are TAXPAYER dependent like 30-35 percent of democrats, of course they want more TAXPAYER MONEY!

            Nothing bi-partisan about LW 🪳s getting 96 billion of TAXPAYER money to piss away in Ukraine on pensions and security while the border invasion in the USA continues at 5k up to 8500 per day at non ports of entry! As long as the 🪳s are spending billions on clothing, feeding, housing and healthcare at the expense and detriment of American TAXPAYERS, no reason to agree to 1 penny spent elsewhere! No American with a properly functioning brain trusts a word any of the 🪳s in dc say! If one is not dependent on TAXPAYER money, they are bent over by the 🪳s in dc all day everyday!

            I wish TAXPAYERS had the ability to stop sending taxes to the 🪳s! Imagine the look on the faces of the 🪳s if 70 million said scrw you to the cancerous entity in dc!

            I do love that cancerous LW city citizens, that vote to virtue signal are now having to navigate the consequences of their stupidity in voting! Nothing better than reading about the citizens of those areas complaining about their “leaders” putting illegals on
            pedestals over citizens! They thought that they would be the ones receiving handouts at the expense of TAXPAYERS! They are getting crumbs while illegals are treated like royalty!

            Just like the Sht show that is Gainesville… freedom of stupidity, no freedom of consequences due to ones stupidity!

          • I don’t know who LWs are but they sound like bad people.

            I didn’t say you promised that Mexico would pay for the wall and surely if you did no one would take that to the bank. Trump promised that, though of course it is totally reasonable that you missed that and thought Democrats had made the promise. He certainly did not say “TAXPAYERS” would unless you are talking about Mexican taxpayers.

            Is that what you are trying to say?

          • LW – left wing

            I don’t care what Trump said! You don’t care what Biden says, in the past, Biden wanted a wall. American taxpayers pay for everything!
            Democrats are the party of screw America and screw Americans for the sake of their global interests along with their bank accounts!
            Unfortunately, the cancerous dump that is dc, along with the majority of local and state governments are filled with useless, self serving scum that believe Americans should be slaves to government!

          • Unlike you, I do care what leaders say and do. Biden has never endorsed a wall across our entire southern border, but Trump did and promised – multiple times and loudly – that Mexico would pay for it. Now you don’t care? Surely you can’t be planning on voting for a guy who lies like that can you?

          • The 🪳s in government do little other than lie and waste oxygen!
            I will vote for the anti gubment pos all day, everyday before I vote for a taxpayer dependent waste of oxygen!

    • Who’s paying the $78k (2019 dollars) annual cost for each illegal immigrant here in the USA? A. Taxpayers

    • Rising homeowners insurance – it’s going way up everywhere thanks to Bidenomics, and the deaths from the Biden-Harris shot mandates. Insurance claims for term life policies are 5-fold the norm in 2021-2023. That money is recouped across all of the insurance giants’ portfolios.

  • Thank you Governor DeSantis for you initiative, and I thank the Troopers and Guard for their service.

  • Illegals especially from Venezuela now are making the media spotlight. How many Americans have to become victim to these criminals? Case and point the recent murder of a student at a Georgia university that was easily preventable because the monster should not have even been in this country to start with. These illegal trespassers need to be eradicated from our streets. Look at all the issues going on in the big cities attacking police, spree robberies. Do people in Florida want that problem? This country has enough criminals to worry about due to liberal policy and lax penalties without trespassers crossing our borders. Venezuela is now refusing to take back the illegals because they have managed to rid their country of these gangs and criminals and passed the buck onto us. All for sending what it takes to borders to keep these people out. I find it odd to that a lot of these people are crossing are sick with viruses that this country has been free of for years and all the Covid sanction worshippers are not up in arms. A germie breeze and the face diaper wearers go into panic. Once again its preventable by saying the border is closed and refusing entry. Biden is right about his hands being tied. Just wrong on the reason. He started this being a idiot and he has no idea on how to fix it because he is the problem. He and his cronies need to be held criminally accountable for each murder, and violent act committed by illegal trespassers that they have allowed to come into this country under his screwed up policies.

  • @Bear9765 – Yep. Measles and hand-foot-mouth disease are making a comeback in South Florida. Saw the reports on Telemundo porque esta gringa habla español.

  • I support this initiative no matter which “party” is in charge, as neither have any interest in having a functioning national border. One would think having a border would be the top priority for a nation, yet here we are. I’m in favor of legal immigration through ports of entry fwiw and I don’t blame the folks coming across, the blame lies squarely in DC on both sides.

    • Since they’re beholden to their corporate overlords, the leadership of the Repubs and Dems both need this influx of immigration for cheap labor. They both want it and for the exact same reasons. Additionally the majority of the NGO’s that are facilitating this are Vatican adjacent although financed by US and UN funds…take that for what it’s worth. The Vatican has a long history of repopulating lands…

      I wish more people would realize this. Far too many citizens are polarized by the Hegelian dialectic that our two party political system offers. Stop fighting with each other and realize the uniparty is marching strongly toward its common goal.

      It boggles the mind that so many still place faith in either party or with Trump or Biden. All they do is say what their bases want to hear while really just emotionally mind f’ing their followers.

      But if Covid didn’t shake the partisans from their cognitive dissonant coma I doubt anything will at this point

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