Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has raised eyebrows by publicly vowing to deport anyone crossing the border illegally during the Biden administration if he wins the White House next year.
The Republican challenger, 45, told reporters after a campaign event in Long Beach, Calif., Friday that the mass removal would be his “first priority” as chief executive.
“Everyone who came illegally under Biden. We have to go — they send back,” DeSantis said. “That will be the first priority. That’s probably 6 or 7 million people there. It will take a lot of effort. It will require us to lean in.”
A DeSantis campaign official told The Post Monday that the 47th president-elect would achieve an ambitious promise by increasing the ranks of the US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as stated in a section of his campaign website titled “Stop the Invasion .“
“We will hire more Border Patrol agents and more removal agents to ensure that even if illegal immigrants do cross, they will be promptly found and deported,” the website said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the California Republican Party Convention on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Anaheim, Calif.AP
“We will allow Enforcement and ICE Removal Operations officers to do their jobs and focus on illegal immigration under the Biden border crisis and those with criminal records,” it continued.
The campaign official did not provide further details on how DeSantis would deport the record-breaking number of immigrants found by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during the Biden presidency. In fiscal year 2022, the number of encounters exceeded 2.76 million, according to CBP data.
DeSantis’ estimate of “6 or 7 million people” may come from the number of undocumented immigrants found by CBP since 2021.
Migrants cross the Rio Grande River from Mexico to the United States on Saturday, September 30, 2023. James Keivom Migrants hold hands while crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico to Eagle Pass, Texas. James Keivom
Florida’s governor isn’t the only candidate pushing for mass deportations. Former President Donald Trump, speaking at the same time as DeSantis on Friday, vowed to enact “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.”
“Surprise, surprise,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post Monday. “Ron DeSantis has copied President Trump’s Agenda 47 policy proposal. Nobody wants a fake idiot like Ron, when they can have the real thing like President Trump.”
Former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has said the so-called “catch and release” policy should be amended to “catch and deport,” while entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to send the children of undocumented immigrants back home with their families, even if they are already US citizens.
Ron DeSantis called the removal of these immigrants his “first priority” at the Republican event on Friday. James Keivom
DeSantis has criticized Trump for failing to build a wall in the south border and pledge Monday he would succeed in making Mexico pay for it by imposing a “fee on remittances sent to Mexico (and other countries) by illegal immigrants.”
“Admitting that the famous promise from 2016 to have ‘Mexico pay for the wall’ was just an empty campaign slogan is bad enough,” the Florida governor tweeted in response to a video of Trump telling an Iowa crowd Sunday that “there is no legal mechanism” to achieve such an outcome. that.
“What makes it worse is that there is actually a way to make Mexico pay for the wall: charging money on remittances sent to Mexico (and other countries) by illegal immigrants,” DeSantis added. “As President, I will solve it. No more rumbling! Decisions are what matter!”
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