Safeguarding the electoral process to improve oversight and prevent unlawful influence has been a top priority for my administration since my first days in office.

The reason is, what the Legislature did wasn’t my proposal.

There is no question this mission has made the state of Florida safer.

We stepped up because there was a gap, but my hope is that they’ll be able to handle that.

Alligator Alcatraz has fulfilled this mission. Detainees who are still awaiting deportation have been transferred to other federal facilities, and demobilization efforts are underway.

Florida led the way in increasing much-needed detention capacity and working with our federal partners to streamline deportations, removing thousands of the most dangerous criminal aliens from our country.

We were never going to make that a permanent facility.

We’ve saved taxpayers from medical care and schooling [of undocumented immigrants] and all these different things.

I’d rather do what’s right, and I’d rather protect the people that I was elected to serve.

There should be a debate. They said that there was going to be a debate.

I don’t think the RPOF ever voted on any type of criteria.

It’s counterproductive when you try to engineer an outcome because you need a coalition of voters to do well.