Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump took office, fear and panic has spread through immigrant communities across the Tallahassee area.
The GOP supermajority legislature was the first to deny a Republican governor a special session since they took control in the 1990s.
If you are not willing to come out now and oppose this swampy piece of legislation, you are not going to get elected governor in this state,” DeSantis says of the legislative
TALLAHASSEE – Florida's Legislature passed a controversial package of immigration measures late Tuesday that Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized as inadequate, but a procedural maneuver might mean the govern
The governor wasn’t able to convince lawmakers to back all his ideas on illegal immigration. But Trump’s grip got tighter than ever.
Why would you put a department impacted by immigration in charge of immigration?” one Florida GOP member asked during a conference call Thursday.
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The veto decision represents further decay of the quickly deteriorating relationship between the governor and Legislature.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has strongly criticized the bill as "weak," is likely to veto it and could call lawmakers back for another special session.
After defying Governor DeSantis’ call for a special session, Republican lawmakers have a math problem when it comes to overriding his veto.
Entering his last two years in office, DeSantis has started a rift with GOP leaders over immigration, possibly sparking a new era of oversight.