Name: JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Holds Press Briefing To Promote Results Of Anti-Fentanyl Program
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Description: JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Holds Press Briefing To Promote Results Of Anti-Fentanyl Program

“We've had six major hurricanes in seven years.”

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“We had the previous 10 years where we had no hurricanes.”

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“Operation Vigilance Sentry interdicted 19,000 illegal aliens, almost 18,000 repatriated to their home country, and more than 470 total…”

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“That is enough fentanyl to kill approximately one third of, of the population of the United States of America.”

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“4.4 pounds of fentanyl could kill a million people.”

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“Florida, out of all 50 states, we're the only state in the United States that has a governor and a lieutenant governor who are both military…”

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“We've got 70,000 people in the state of Florida alone that have final deportation orders that haven't been executed.”

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“Since I've been governor, we've retired almost half of the state's taxpayer supported debt.”

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“New York has 3 million, 4 million fewer residents. Their budget's twice as much as ours.”

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“We've made permanent sales tax elimination on the disaster preparedness items.”

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“The amount of fentanyl that we've seized...you're talking about enough fentanyl to kill tens of millions of people.”

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“A couple years ago we were hitting over 100,000 drug overdose deaths across the United States of America.”

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“Fentanyl is the main reason why [drug overdose deaths] reached the levels that it has now.”

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“That's led in part to the reduction in opioid overdose deaths throughout the state of Florida.”

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“In 2001, I launched a number of emergency measures to help with the southern border that was happening in Texas.”

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“We also launched operation Vigilance Sentry, which is our maritime operations to protect the peninsula of Florida from these vessels that…”

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“In 2023, we established the state Assistance for Fentanyl eradication Grant Program. We call it the SAFE Program.”

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“Over 200, almost 200 safe investigations have led to 2,100 arrests, the seizure of 485 pounds of fentanyl and over 63,000 fentanyl pills.”

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“545 pounds of cocaine, over 300 pounds of meth, 4.6 million in drug cash, 730 in drug related firearms, and then 76 drug vehicles have been…”

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“FDLE agents in Orlando, Jacksonville and Fort Myers earlier this month arrested multiple suspects that were part of a drug trafficking ring…”

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“Earlier this month in Orlando, FDLE arrested a high level cartel member selling fentanyl and meth.”

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“FDLE Orlando also arrested an illegal alien from Colombia, a former Colombian paramilitary leader responsible for cocaine trafficking and…”

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“An illegal alien and Gulf cartel human smuggler, previously deported twice, was arrested by FDLE and sentenced after being caught smuggling…”

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“Operation Burn Baby Burn broke up a drug trafficking organization importing fentanyl from Mexico and from California. 17 arrests made 6…”

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“Operation Jacob's Ladder took down a Gulf cartel pipeline, sending monthly truckloads worth millions of dollars of meth, fentanyl, cocaine…”

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“Polk County alone has seized more than 25% of all fentanyl captured as a result of the SAFE program.”

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“In June of this year, FDLE and Suwannee County Sheriff's offices seized enough fentanyl to, as I mentioned, do significant damage in their…”

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“Last year, I recommended an additional $20 million so that we could keep our safe program operational. Now, the legislature did fund some of…”

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“We have 7.7 million committed to active contracts. There's now about 5 million that are left for new contracts.”

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“When I became governor, they were pushing to repeal Florida's truth in sentencing law so that people would have let out a lot of felons, and…”

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“He [Jay] served in Iraq, Afghanistan, all these places.”

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“He [Jay] was personally rescuing people during that conflict while these Iranian ballistic missiles, you know, were raining down.”

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“He [Jay] was the guy that got our bill enacted to ban the CCP from buying land in the state of Florida.”

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“We had a lot of people from Florida over there [in Israel].”

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“I authorize an emergency mission to exfil people from Israel and bring them back safely to the state of Florida.”

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“We ended up getting thousands of people out of Israel at that time to safety.”

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“We do give you a $5,000 signing bonus [for police officers].”

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“The state attorney in Orange County, she obviously is not gung ho about doing what needs to be done.”

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“When these prosecutors Soros backed have done where they've exceeded their discretion and, and ended up neglecting core duties, you know…”

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“Because we've had Alligator Alcatraz, you've had thousands and thousands of deportations that might not otherwise have happened.”

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“We spent money and we will get reimbursed.”

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“Florida will clearly benefit from a taxpayer perspective.”

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“We've done more to facilitate the president's agenda on this than any other state by far.”

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“The state, we don't have to do a federal environmental impact statement when we're doing business on our own property.”

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“Everything we're doing on this mission, everything we're doing is reimbursable from FEMA.”

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“FDOT issued a memo to explain that a couple months ago. Everybody's been on notice about that.”

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“Most places in Florida, 95%.”

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“Our role from the FDOT's perspective for the Department of Transportation is to make sure the roads remain clean.”

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“I as governor signed this into law.”

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“We don't rely on property tax revenue at the state level.”

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“We just got rid of the business rent tax, eliminated that tax.”

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“We're one of the lowest taxes state in the country.”

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“We're going to place a question on the ballot that is going to allow Floridians to be able to vote themselves relief from property tax.”

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“The budget that we are under right now in Florida is spending less than last year's budget and last year's budget spent less than the year…”

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“Orange county was not cooperative [with property tax relief efforts].”

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“Blaze has been very hard on Manatee county, which is a very red county.”

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“Property values are going up. People are buying homes a lot of times sight unseen.”

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“How many of the local governments are responded by doing really significant property tax reductions? Not very many did that.”

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“The audits that Blaze are leading, you know, it's the we've called it the Florida Agency for 50 Fiscal Oversight, our FAFO audits.”

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Ron DeSantis: “In South Florida, FDLE dismantled a fentanyl laced meth ring…”