We stood up and many times all alone and took the arrows, and we were right to do it. And the state is better off because we stood up and we didn't. We beat the left on immigration. When I became governor, one of my first orders of business was to work with the legislature to finally, after all these years, ban sanctuary cities in the state of Florida. And we never stopped. We've enacted the strongest illegal immigration legislation in the country. There's a little bit of a tug of war going on. (04:14–04:25)
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Asserts that banning sanctuary cities was an early priority of his governorship.
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