We need our local agencies to be doing it and do interior enforcement. That's obviously what our voters expected, and they wanted to see illegal aliens removed from our country. The House of Representatives in Florida had a different idea. They rejected initially my call to mandate cooperation with DHS from all state and local law enforcement agencies. And they actually passed a bill that stripped entirely the governor's ability to enforce immigration law at all or to help the federal government at all. (29:39–29:52)
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Asserts that the Florida House initially rejected DeSantis's proposal for mandatory cooperation with DHS.
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