Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis He has touted bona fide border controls as the leader of a maritime nation and told Fox News he plans to collect remittances from foreign workers to fund construction of a border wall.
DeSantis said on “Life, Liberty and Levine” that the illegal immigration, smuggling and human trafficking crisis under President Biden has turned every state into a border state, but Florida is quickly and highly visible. It was one of the few states to take action.
He told host Mark Levine that he has since formed an anti-human smuggling committee to help stem the illegal immigration crisis by flying migrants to jurisdictions he previously promised would be “sanctuary” for migrants. He said he acted to help calm the situation.
A DeSantis administration would ban sanctuary cities and require programs like E-Verify to verify employees' legal residency and citizenship status, he said.
Pennsylvania Republicans aim to collect remittances from illegal immigrants to fund property tax relief
DeSantis said programs like E-Verify will be needed to verify employees' legal residency and citizenship status. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
DeSantis said that as the leader of a maritime nation, he must face this problem on the water just as Texas faces this problem on land, and that the government must ensure that the U.S. Coast Guard He said he has helped interdict and deport illegal immigrants who arrive on land. Places like Haiti.
DeSantis has pledged to continue building a border wall and reinstate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy for immigrants seeking admission to the U.S., with funding for such a wall. presented a unique method.
He suggested the possibility of implementing a fee similar to one previously proposed by Pennsylvania Republicans to tax international money transfers to help state taxpayers.
In 2022, Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Chambersburg) introduced SB 1158, a bill that would impose illegal remittances on illegal immigrants to feed the state's property tax and rent relief fund. ” was drafted.
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In an interview with Fox News Digital at the time the bill was drafted, Mastriano estimated that more than $70 billion a year was being diverted from the U.S. economy through these transfers.
“Once settled in a new state, illegal immigrants primarily use money transfer companies such as Western Union to send their income back to their home countries,” he said at the time.
Mr. DeSantis told Mr. Levine that he would create such a policy to fund a border wall.
DeSantis said his plan would be to “build a border wall and finance it by charging fees for workers to send money overseas. That would raise billions of dollars.” .
“But we have to deport people who are in the country illegally. And we haven't seen that in many administrations.” [at] Almost sufficient level. So let's do that. And when people know the law will be enforced, they are much less likely to try to enter the country illegally in the first place. ”
Mr. DeSantis also talked about plans to treat Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, noting that crime and drug trafficking extends beyond Mexico and into the United States.
“The thing about it is that [people] You'll buy a pill thinking it's something else that happens to have fentanyl in it. That's enough to kill someone. ”
