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HomeCrimeLieutenant Governor Nuñez joins multi-agency strike force combating the effects of the open southern border

Lieutenant Governor Nuñez joins multi-agency strike force combating the effects of the open southern border

March 4, 2024

Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez participated in a ride-along in support of Operation Safe Highways, a multi-agency strike force tasked with interdicting criminals on state roadways with an emphasis on illegal drugs and criminal aliens. Florida law enforcement agencies participating include Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Florida National Guard, and Escambia, Okaloosa, Walton, and Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Offices.

The multi-agency strike force, formed at the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, seeks to prevent a variety of crimes stemming from Biden’s Border Crisis, including human trafficking, human smuggling, illegal drugs, and illegal weapons. In addition to the ride-along, Lt. Governor Nuñez attended operational briefings, viewed a K-9 demonstration, and saw first-hand the strike force’s efficient operations.

“Governor Ron DeSantis has declared that Florida is a law-and-order state, and this multi-agency strike force reaffirms our commitment to combat heinous crimes perpetrated by dangerous criminals entering our country because of the Biden Border Crisis,” said Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez. “Our administration will use the extent of its authority to fight back against the reckless border policies. This ride-along allowed me to witness first-hand the dedication, courage, and sacrifice of our law enforcement officers in keeping Floridians safe.”

The combined efforts of the strike force operation yielded the following:

 Enforcement:

  • Undocumented Aliens-16
  • Drug Charges-7
  • Felony Charges-21
  • Misdemeanor Charges-16
  • Total Arrests-18
  • Traffic Stops-137

Asset Seizures:

  • Cocaine-52.8g
  • Marijuana-1,393.5g
  • Vehicles-5
  • Firearms-2

Total Cash Value of Asset Seizures-$262,014

“The Operation Safe Highways initiative provides Floridians with added assurance that, through the combined efforts of law enforcement statewide, we are united in preventing criminal activity,” said FLHSMV Executive Director Dave Kerner. “The Florida Highway Patrol is committed to preventing our roads from being used for human smuggling, human trafficking, and the transportation of illicit drugs and weapons. We are dedicated to enforcing the law and protecting our citizens and visitors, and we will continue to arrest and deter dangerous criminals and their associated activities from entering our communities.”

“The Florida Highway Patrol is dedicated to fulfilling our mission of serving and protecting our community by enforcing the law to prevent dangerous substances and criminals from endangering the lives of people in our state,” said FHP Colonel Gary Howze II. “The ongoing success of the strike force demonstrates that we must remain vigilant in our efforts.”

“This multi-agency interdiction effort focuses on removing felons, weapons, and illegal substances from the playing field,” said FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass. “When we interdict these elements on the front end, we prevent them from infecting our communities. I thank our FDLE members and law enforcement officers for their dedication to these interdictions.”

  • The Governor needs to update his propogan… – I mean his Public Information releases. It’s not “Biden’s Border Crisis”, it’s the GOP/Trump Border Crisis since they killed the Border Patrol Union approved and 1st immigration reform legislation written in decades so they could keep it as a campaign issue. They have no chance of passing anything as good no matter who wins the next election and own the crisis now.

    • Go back to MSNBC with your lies Jazz. Only truth is accepted here.

    • Jazzman, the truth (which can be easily verified by the fact that Rs voted it down and, moreover, because Trump told them to) is beyond some peoples comprehension and/or denial of reality.

      • I note that none of them will challenge me on the facts because they can’t.

        The last time we had a serious immigration bill before Congress, with bipartisan support – necessary to overcome the Senate’s 60 vote filibuster threshold – was in 2013 when the GOP killed it in the House by not allowing it to come to a vote where it would have definitely passed. That one had language about a path to citizenship for those brought here as kids and who had grown up as Americans, including military service for some. It also toughened laws on entering and increased funding for border enforcement.

        This time, there virtually no Democratic supported parts of the bill as Trump endorsed Sen Langford was given leadership and much free reign to write it. Mostly providing the tougher enforcement elemewnts, it included money for more detection tech for finding fentanyl (sp?), a sacred cow cause GOP politicians bring up every day. But here they decided to do nothing about it.

        Complete hypocrites, ruled by a pig of a man, who thinks only of himself. My dear mother was a lifelong Republican now passed – she would not have let someone like Donald Trump sit at her table or come in her house.

        • Jazz, we’ve responded to you with facts over and over again, but you ignore them. Therefore we choose not to cast our pearls before swine.
          You’re a partisan liar; you apparently have no integrity nor do you have any will to take off the leftist filter you perceive all things thru and look at the facts with an open mind.
          You’re the most closed minded person on this commentary, followed closely by Ms. O.

    • I dont see the Border Patrol complaining about Trump the only negative comments by them are about treasonous Joe. Kinda hard to explain that one away. Biden since day one opened a border and this country been invaded everyday since then not by a few, by thousands. Personally I think you are a sweet on Gov. Ron and Trump. Everytime theirs names are mentioned you Jizz all over them.

      • Leave me out of your sex fantasies bear. Try to get control of yourself.

        “Border Patrol Union endorses controversial Senate border deal: ‘far better than the status quo’
        The union believes provisions in the bill will lead to a significant drop in illegal crossings..

        NBPC says the Border Act of 2024 will give Border Patrol agents an authority that they never had in the past, including removing “single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review, which historically has required the release of these individuals into the interior of the U.S.”

        NBPC believes this will lead to a drop in illegal border crossings and allow agents to focus on detecting and apprehending would-be illegal border crossers who evade apprehension.

        “While not perfect, the Border Act of 2024 is a step in the right direction and is far better than the status quo, which is why the National Border Patrol Council endorses this bill and hopes for a quick passage,” NBPC said in a statement. …”

        https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-union-endorses-controversial-senate-border-deal-far-better-status-quo

        • Still dont see the border patrol complaining about Trump. Only complaining about joey.

          Can you hear it yet. Trump, TRump, TRUmp, TRUMp, TRUMP, TRUMP. I dont think its going to change.

          • Your simple mind, indecency, and membership in a personality cult for an indecent pig are duly noted.

          • Still dont see the border patrol complaining about Trump. Can’t handle that truth or the mere fact that Trump may very well be your next president.

  • Thanks Lt. Gov. Nunez, for getting out there with “hands on” observation, nothing is better than first hand experience than, cooperating in a project, you are asking someone else to participate in.

    • Now, if only ALL of our local politicians would do a full duty day with their respective officers in a ride along, IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT.

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