Ron DeSantis: “We've stopped 20,000, just the state boats, our vessels have stopped 20,000 illegal aliens from washing…”

“That's just kind of how the communities, you know, are going to be. We've also done a lot and I've mentioned this the other day with our vigilant sentry, the boats stopping, the boats coming in. We've stopped 20,000, just the state boats, our vessels have stopped 20,000 illegal aliens from washing ashore, mostly in southern Florida. And the Coast Guard has stopped even more than that. And so the question is, does our, do our people want just boats washing ashore?” (24:43–24:54)

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