‘Too Weak’: DeSantis expresses frustrations in illegal immigration legislature

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to speak against the Trump Act, known otherwise as the state’s illegal immigration legislature.

During a Friday news conference in Destin, DeSantis discussed how the policy takes power away from the governor and places it in the hands of the Commissioner of Agriculture.

The governor said that this undermines the impact of handling undocumented people as the commission is underfunded.

He then continued to mention that passing this legislature would terminate his state of emergency, saying undocumented people would be given too much leniency.

DeSantis then shifted his frustrations against the Florida legislators, saying that they “fall into line under pressure.”

The governor then questioned the audience about whether they would accept the governor’s intervention in the legislature to support tougher laws against undocumented people. Attendees agreed.

“We’re going to get involved in some of these legislative primaries because I just think that if you’ve campaigned one way and you get up and do something different, we need to expose that for the voters,” said DeSantis.