Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden policies


Gov. Ron DeSantis traveled to Pensacola Friday to dispatch 50 state law enforcement agents to the Texas-Mexico border, a mission highlighting what Republicans like the governor consider security failings by the Biden administration.

DeSantis didn’t mention the president by name during a press conference, conducted at a highway weigh station with the uniformed officers in attendance, although in the past he has criticized President Biden for reversing the Trump administration’s border policies.

Although those were punitive toward asylum seekers including children, the governor had insisted they had been “curbing illegal immigration, securing our border, and keeping Americans safe.”

DeSantis, who has been using culture war battles to boost his national profile ahead of his reelection bid next year and a possible run for president, indicated that at least part of the tab for this exercise will fall on taxpayers in Texas, not Florida.

Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2021/06/25/gov-desantis-deploys-50-state-law-officers-to-patrol-the-mexican-border-as-gop-govs-target-biden-policies/

[Lovie777]

1. What about Arizona? . . .

republican governors should send them there too.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I suspect that the TX people paying for folks in FL to patrol their own borders isn't going to

sit very well w/ them...I would like Abbot to explain this to his TX voters...

And in FL, I wonder if desantis can explain his conduct sending 50 of his highway patrol guys away from the state, when there is a building down and they are looking for survivors still? Can't these officers relieve some of those officers who have been serving nonstop since the building's collapse?

[Rowdyag]

4. I'm a native Texan

Living in Texas…WTF are FL LEOs doing in Texas?

[Chainfire]

5. Being a Floridian I have exactly the same question

The answer is simple. DeSantis is looking to be President next time round and he is working on his far right credentials.
DeSantis is one evil SOB, he is everything that Trump wishes he was.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Do you really think a Highway Patrol officer is the right person to conduct....

A complex search and rescue of a collapsed building?

While I would concede DeSantis is just doing a stunt to make him look…..something, your rank-and-file FHP guy isn’t going to be much help to the specifically trained, well experienced people doing the work in Surfside.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Perhaps, but they'll need more security around the site though,

wouldn't they? To keep onlookers, etc. all away from the scene...

[IcyPeas]

3. meanwhile Mexico has sent a rescue team to help with the Condo Collapse

[Dreampuff]

8. I loved it when I heard

That Mexico and Israel had sent people to help in Surfside. I also thought of the things the orange man had said about the Mexicans.