Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters Monday that he doesn’t want the problems related to illegal immigration at the border to be "imported into the state of Florida."
DeSantis addressed a question about transportation companies and hotels harboring illegal immigrants in the Sunshine State.
"If you’re knowingly involved in that, you’re doing stuff that we don’t want. We don’t want the problems at the southern border to be imported into the state of Florida," DeSantis said during a press conference. "And so people that are instrumental in that, we want to hold accountable by, of course, denying business opportunities with state and local but, maybe even more important, making them pay restitution for all the costs that’s going to end up doing."
The Florida governor commented on a video captured by conservative independent journalist Laura Loomer this week, appearing to show a busload of illegal immigrants being dropped off in Florida.
DeSantis’s office previously claimed in November that the Biden administration had sent more than 70 planes full of migrants from the border to Jacksonville.
[DeSantis: We don’t want border problems 'to be imported into' Florida, by Matthew Miller, Washington Examiner, January 31, 2022 (Emphases added)]