Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he authorized the dispatch of police officers to the US-Mexico border in Arizona and Texas after the two respective states requested it.
DeSantis, a Republican, said Florida is the first state to respond to a letter from Governors Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, both Republicans, who asked all other states for help policing the border.
“We are here today because we have problems in Florida that are not organic to Florida that we have been forced to deal with for many years, but particularly for the past six months, due to the failure of the Biden administration to secure our southern border,” said DeSantis. during an event on Wednesday. “And actually do something really constructive about what’s happening on the southern border.”
DeSantis said they will dispatch police officers from various sheriff’s offices, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and the Florida Highway Patrol to the two states. Sheriffs from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Lee, Bay and Brevard counties joined DeSantis at the press conference.
While DeSantis did not elaborate on the nature of the police deployment, he said there will be “more information on the contours of mutual assistance” in the future. “I’m sure that in each of these sheriff’s departments, there are officers who are eager to go help,” he added.
“I think there are a lot of people thinking, ‘Man, I wish I could do something to help.’ Well, they have the opportunity to do so. I think a lot of hands are going to go up saying, ‘Hey, send me, I want to be useful,’ “added the Republican governor.
DeSantis also used the press conference to criticize the Biden administration’s immigration policies, saying that President Joe Biden rescinded a series of successful Trump-era mandates designed to curb illegal immigration. Biden has explained that it was necessary to end the policies of former President Donald Trump, claiming that they were ineffective.
Abbott and Ducey, in their letter dated June 11, asked the other states to share additional labor.
“With your help, we can stop more of these federal and state crime perpetrators before they can cause trouble in your state,” the two governors wrote. They did not mention states that send their respective National Guard forces to the border, since troops sent to the border cannot legally make arrests.
Data released this week by Customs and Border Protection shows that agents detained about 180,000 people who entered the United States illegally in May – the highest number on record in about two years. More than 112,000 of those illegal immigrants were expelled under the Title 42 health provision, which was authorized through an emergency declaration last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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