Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Monday a special session for the Florida Legislature to help President-elect Donald Trump implement his deportation plan.
DeSantis said that Florida anticipates the Trump administration will issue many executive orders once Trump is sworn in.
“We’re going to have some time to process and make sure we’re doing what we need to do, but then we need to act and we need to act quickly,” the governor said.
According to The Associated Press, Trump plans to introduce 100 executive orders on his first day in office. The AP says that many of these executive orders will be related to border security and deportation.
If people holding office in Florida don’t follow the law, then DeSantis said he can suspend them.
“In order to do that effectively we are going to need legislation to impose additional duties on local officials and provide funding for those local officials,” he said. “There also needs to be measures to hold people accountable for violating our anti-sanctuary policies and that Florida needs to make sure that we don’t have any lingering incentives for people to come into our state illegally.”
DeSantis said he is calling the special session for the week of January 27.
During the Biden administration, around 11 million people have been encountered at America’s borders, according to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
America’s foreign-born population in 2024 represents 15.6 percent of its population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is the highest percentage in American history, Center for Immigration Studies reports (CIS).
As a state, 21 percent of Florida’s citizens were born outside of America.
According to CIS, 58 percent of the increase in foreigners since 2021 is attributed to illegal immigration.
If current immigration levels continue at the pace they did during the Biden administration, America will have a foreign-born population of 82.2 million by 2040, CIS says. This will represent almost 25 percent of America’s population in 15 years.
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