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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts) Sun Jun 27, 2021, 03:38 PM Jun 2021

Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden

Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden policies

Gov. Ron DeSantis traveled to Pensacola Friday to dispatch 50 state law enforcement agents to the Texas-Mexico border, a mission highlighting what Republicans like the governor consider security failings by the Biden administration.

DeSantis didn’t mention the president by name during a press conference, conducted at a highway weigh station with the uniformed officers in attendance, although in the past he has criticized President Biden for reversing the Trump administration’s border policies.

Although those were punitive toward asylum seekers including children, the governor had insisted they had been “curbing illegal immigration, securing our border, and keeping Americans safe.”

DeSantis, who has been using culture war battles to boost his national profile ahead of his reelection bid next year and a possible run for president, indicated that at least part of the tab for this exercise will fall on taxpayers in Texas, not Florida.

Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2021/06/25/gov-desantis-deploys-50-state-law-officers-to-patrol-the-mexican-border-as-gop-govs-target-biden-policies/

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Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP

What about Arizona? . . . Lovie777 Jun 2021 #1

I suspect that the TX people paying for folks in FL to patrol their own borders isn't going to SWBTATTReg Jun 2021 #2

I'm a native Texan Rowdyag Jun 2021 #4

Being a Floridian I have exactly the same question Chainfire Jun 2021 #5

Do you really think a Highway Patrol officer is the right person to conduct.... A HERETIC I AM Jun 2021 #6

Perhaps, but they'll need more security around the site though, SWBTATTReg Jun 2021 #7

meanwhile Mexico has sent a rescue team to help with the Condo Collapse IcyPeas Jun 2021 #3

I loved it when I heard Dreampuff Jun 2021 #8

Lovie777

(15,000 posts)

1. What about Arizona? . . .

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Jun 27, 2021, 03:43 PM

Jun 2021

republican governors should send them there too.

SWBTATTReg

(24,085 posts)

2. I suspect that the TX people paying for folks in FL to patrol their own borders isn't going to

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Jun 27, 2021, 03:44 PM

Jun 2021

sit very well w/ them...I would like Abbot to explain this to his TX voters...

And in FL, I wonder if desantis can explain his conduct sending 50 of his highway patrol guys away from the state, when there is a building down and they are looking for survivors still? Can't these officers relieve some of those officers who have been serving nonstop since the building's collapse?

Rowdyag

(107 posts)

4. I'm a native Texan

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 27, 2021, 04:06 PM

Jun 2021

Living in Texas…WTF are FL LEOs doing in Texas?

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)

5. Being a Floridian I have exactly the same question

Reply to Rowdyag (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 27, 2021, 04:20 PM

Jun 2021

The answer is simple. DeSantis is looking to be President next time round and he is working on his far right credentials.
DeSantis is one evil SOB, he is everything that Trump wishes he was.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,583 posts)

6. Do you really think a Highway Patrol officer is the right person to conduct....

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 07:45 AM

Jun 2021

A complex search and rescue of a collapsed building?

While I would concede DeSantis is just doing a stunt to make him look…..something, your rank-and-file FHP guy isn’t going to be much help to the specifically trained, well experienced people doing the work in Surfside.