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Ron DeSantis: “When Biden opened [the border in 2021], I'd send, we sent…”

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Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Permanent Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday in Florida

Published | Video Starts at 40:36

They should have gone when they got ordered this and they didn't. And obviously Biden wasn't doing anything. You know, when they would come across the border in 2021, When Biden opened [the border in 2021], I'd send, we sent highway patrol, we sent a bunch of, we were the first state to do it. to kind of help. And you know, some of it was helpful because people would see the presence and then they would decide not to go across there. (40:36–40:43)

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Asserts that Florida was the first state to send highway patrol to the border when Biden opened it in 2021.

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