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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 25, 2025

As your Attorney General and a father of three young kids, protecting children is my top priority. If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Jun 25, 2025

From slashing money for law enforcement to cutting grants that provide resources for vulnerable students, this administration's reckless funding cuts have put communities throughout our country at risk. On top of causing dangerous chaos…

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Jun 24, 2025

When you vote today, please rank five candidates for mayor. But do not make Andrew Cuomo one of them.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

We in Florida will fight alongside this administration to keep Florida safe, strong, and free.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

I’m proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

I think this is the best one. I call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ This 30 square mile area is completely surrounded by the Everglades — presents an efficient, low cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don’t need…

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

We'll have some light infrastructure, a lot of heavy duty tent facilities, trailer facilities.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

A lot of people thought maybe it was just a joke, but we're serious.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

We’ll give them the due process that all these courts say they need.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 24, 2025

You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 23, 2025

I’m proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 23, 2025

There's really nowhere to go. If you're housed there, if you're detained there, there's no way in, no way out.

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Liz Murrill
@lizmurrill· LA· Jun 21, 2025

We will immediately seek relief from the full Fifth Circuit and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 21, 2025

If somebody were to get out, there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting. That’s why I like to call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’

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Liz Murrill
@lizmurrill· LA· Jun 20, 2025

The Constitution does not bar our Legislature's attempt to teach our students what the Supreme Court has repeatedly said: The Ten Commandments have historical significance as a foundation of our legal system.

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Liz Murrill
@lizmurrill· LA· Jun 20, 2025

We strongly disagree with the Fifth Circuit’s affirmance of an injunction preventing five Louisiana parishes from implementing HB71.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 20, 2025

It’s immoral – and more importantly, illegal. I’m glad to see the District Court agrees, blocking the President’s latest attempt to circumvent the Constitution and coerce state and local governments into doing his bidding while we continue…

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 20, 2025

If being held in contempt is what it costs to defend the rule of law and stand firmly behind President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration, so be it.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 20, 2025

I’m not going to direct law enforcement to stand down on enforcing the Trump agenda and carrying out Florida’s law.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 20, 2025

[I]t is my view that no lawful, legitimate order currently impedes your agencies from continuing to enforce Florida’s new illegal entry and reentry laws.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 20, 2025

President Trump is threatening to withhold critical transportation funds unless states agree to carry out his inhumane and illogical immigration agenda for him.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 20, 2025

Trump had been treating these funds — funds that go toward improving our roads and keeping our planes in the air — as a bargaining chip.

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