Ron DeSantis

Today, we are officially designating terrorist organizations under Florida law. In addition to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, we are adding Antifa to the list—along with more than 90 Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including cartels.

Last December, I signed an Executive Order to eliminate the influence of radical terrorist ideologies and the organizations that promote them in Florida. This year, I signed legislation to strengthen those protections and give Florida…

These are common-sense tools. It’s not saying, ‘Oh, some random civic group.’ It’s based on conduct.

I think you saw how the Biden administration treated some of those groups, but this is something for public scrutiny.

That decision in birthright citizenship means, in effect, unless there’s an amendment to the federal Constitution, that you will have birthright citizenship for birth tourists and people coming to the country illegally indefinitely.

You have the cap; if it’s above the cap, then you have an ability to seek a claim with, with the state of Florida, and those are, you know, that’s not litigation, you know, that’s that’s a different forum where that is.

I have no question, no doubt that that would happen, so we’ll veto that, and, and also just with the local government property tax argument, you know, why would I want to impose more burdens on them?

I know that ours would have passed because we did a lot of research on exactly how to structure it and how to do that.

I thought the proposal will pass with 60% approval this fall, 'but I don’t know that.'

But ours was part of a larger vision, and I think it would have really been something that would have been historic.

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

Listen, you know, I respect what you guys put in the budget, I don’t always agree, but I know it’s meaningful to a lot of people, and we want to accommodate.

It was a casualty of saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to rob Peter to pay Paul,’

If you go back to 2019 until now, no question that we are leaving it better than we found it.

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.

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.

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.

We were never going to make that a permanent facility.

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

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

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

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

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