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Ron DeSantis: “We're going to continue the operations.”

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Governor Ron DeSantis Leads Florida's Rescue Efforts for Residents in Israel Amidst Conflict

Published June 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 13:32

So God bless this amazing state, and we're just really happy to be home safely. So thank you all very much. Well, We're going to continue the operations. I think everybody has worked really, really hard. This is something that when these operations began, we didn't necessarily know what was going to happen immediately. (13:32–13:36)

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Asserts that the operations to assist Florida citizens will continue.

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“We were able to bring back many hundreds, close to a thousand folks, mostly from Florida.”
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“We need a breather, nice to have that 10 year breather that we had last decade from 06 to 2016.”
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“We respond to a bunch of different things in the state of Florida, hurricanes being the number one.”
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“We've also done things like do these rescues. We're doing all the immigration, huge, huge tasks that fall on our emergency management team.”
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“This is the second plane load of folks that have now come in to Tampa.”
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“We helped really get people out of Israel initially, which is important.”
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“I don't know when this, when the Ben Gurion Airport's going to open up again and it may not open up for some time.”
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“This is part of an ongoing effort for us to serve the people of the state of Florida.”
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“Talking with parents who had kids over there, many of them are school aged kids, college age kids.”
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“The state of Florida really lead the effort to bring them back to safety.”
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“Our Florida citizens were there and they needed to be rescued.”
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“Florida, we're near the top of the list, if not the top of the list partially, you know, just based on our demographics.”
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“Some states may not have a critical mass, and then other states just may not be able to handle emergency response the way we do.”
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“During COVID we set up these mobile clinical clinics. That was Florida Division of Emergency Management that did that.”
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“Florida Division of Emergency Management has been involved in everything from hurricane response to illegal alien transport.”
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“We were putting up [monoclonal antibody treatment] sites within like 24 hours.”
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