Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is rebuking Mexican President López Obrador for interfering in Florida politics.
“President López Obrador should be cracking down on the cartels running his country and fueling our deadly opioid epidemic instead of worrying about what we are doing in Florida,” DeSantis said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News.
The rebuke came after President Obrador slammed DeSantis for his sweeping reforms of migration-related laws in Florida.
“I found out that the Florida governor — imagine, Florida, which is full of migrants! — is taking repressive, inhumane measures against [illegal] migrants in Florida because he wants to be a [presidential] candidate,” Obrador told a Mexican audience on Monday.
In a statement to Breitbart News, DeSantis shut down Obrador’s demand for more migration:
While President Biden may take his cues from leftist foreign leaders, Floridians won’t let their immigration laws be dictated by Mexico City. I’ll never back down from using the full weight of my office to protect the people of Florida by enforcing our immigration laws, and look forward to signing the strongest legislation against illegal immigration in Florida history.
DeSantis’ rebuke was delivered as he prepares to sign a law that makes it difficult for employers to favor and hire wage-cutting illegal migrants over ordinary American job-seekers.
The pending legislation, known as SB 1718, will likely be signed by DeSantis on Wednesday after being labeled as the “Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation” by the New York Times .
According to DeSantis’ office, the legislation:
Requires private employers with 25 or more employees to use the E-Verify system to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees, fines employers who fail to use E-Verify $1,000 per day, and suspends the licenses of such private employers until they come back into compliance.
Suspends licenses of any employer who knowingly employs illegal aliens, and makes using a fake ID to gain employment a felony.
Enhances penalties for human smuggling, including making knowingly transporting five or more illegal aliens or a single illegal alien minor a second-degree felony subject to a $10,000 fine and up to 15 years in prison.
Bans local governments and NGOs from issuing identification documents to illegal aliens and invalidates all out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens.
Requires hospitals to collect and report healthcare costs for illegal aliens.
Many Florida employers already employ illegal migrants, in part, because the workers are cheaper, more compliant, and grateful for the work. One far-left activist in Orlando, Fla., taunted DeSantis with a May 7 image apparently showing many illegal migrant workers at a construction site that would otherwise be run by better-paid Americans:
The federal government’s support for mass migration forces down Americans’ wages as it pushes up their rents , slows innovation , concentrates wealth in a few states , and shoves many Floridians to the sidelines of their own society . A 2020 study by investors admitted that an effective E-Verify law would pressure employers to raise wages for ordinary Americans .
Moreover, the establishment media ensures that Americans wildly underestimate the scale of migration even as they greatly overestimate other Americans’ support for continued immigration. For example, the “American Aspirations Index” survey asked 2,010 Americans in 2021 to rank 55 national priorities. The respondents said they believe that “[being] open to immigration” is the 18-ranked priority for all Americans. But when asked to declare their own views, they ranked the “open to immigration” priority near the bottom, at just 42nd of the 55 priorities.
However, GOP politicians have not used that pocketbook, kitchen-table argument to woo the many Democrat-leaning voters — including white-collar voters — who are growing worried about the scale and cost of Biden’s migration.
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Greg Abbott via Storyful For example, in Florida, some donor-backed GOP legislators worked with pro-migrant Democrats to narrow the ambitious scope of DeSantis’ reforms as they moved through the Florida legislature. For example, the legislature rejected DeSantis’s proposal to penalize employers who house illegal migrants, and it exempted small employers from the E-Verify requirement.
But DeSantis got most of his reforms through the legislature — so the pro-migration groups of investors and ethnic lobbies are still loudly opposing his accomplishment.
“We’re just begging him not to sign this law because it will create economic havoc, and there’s better ways and better public policy that we can promote to attend the issue that we have,” immigration lawyer Aileen Walborsky told The Palm Beach Post .
“We don’t want people going into hiding, avoiding necessary health care services because of the requirements included in this bill,” said Palm Beach County Commissioner Michael Barnett. He is the former chair of the Palm Beach County GOP.
The American Business Immigration Council opposed the law, and its Venezuelan-born Florida director claimed it would “severely exacerbate the acute labor shortage in Florida.”
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DeSantis has backed a lawsuit that has shut down some of Biden’s migration plans, sent some of Biden’s migrants to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and has acted large to sharply raise criminal penalties for drug dealers.
The truth is that the Biden administration has chosen to allow millions of migrants to enter the U.S. without visas
Biden DHS Blames Migrant Crisis On Cartel ‘Disinformation’ That The Border Is ‘Open’ By Todd Bensman
The Federalist, Excerpt: The Biden administration has repeatedly blamed the border crisis on human smugglers who spread “disinformation” that the border is “open.” As someone who has interviewed thousands of U.S.-bound immigrants over the last several years, I can confidently attest that this narrative is a fabrication.
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Illegal Immigration Is Not a Fact of Nature
U.S. Border Patrol deal with a large group of migrants who have gathered between the primary and secondary border fences as the United States prepares to lift Covid-era Title 42 restrictions, near San Diego, Calif., May 11, 2023. (Mike Blake/Reuters) All Our Opinion in Your Inbox NR Daily is delivered right to you every afternoon. No charge.
It’s a policy choice. Nevertheless, the Biden administration and allied media are speaking of the massive influx at the southern border as if it were a hurricane or a business-cycle recession — a common but unpredictable phenomenon that the current president just happens to be stuck with. That’s why a reporter recently demanded that Ted Cruz explain what he has been doing to secure the border in his time as a Texas senator. It’s also why the administration insisted that the initial surge in 2021 was “seasonal ,” then began to redirect blame to “root causes ,” and now finally complains that Congress should have passed reform legislation 20 years ago.
The truth is that the Biden administration has chosen to allow millions of migrants to enter the U.S. without visas. In fact, rarely in public policy is cause and effect as obvious as it is here. The Trump administration had ended the massive flows principally by requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases were adjudicated. Because most of these asylum seekers were actually economic migrants who are ineligible for asylum under traditional rules, they simply went home rather than wait for the hearing. Their failure to gain entry then discouraged other would-be migrants from making the trip.
President Biden moved to abandon the Remain in Mexico policy upon taking office, sparking new migrant waves. Unwilling or unable to detain all of these new asylum applicants pending a hearing, his administration is releasing them into the U.S. on “parole.” As my colleague George Fishman has explained , Congress did not intend the president’s parole power to be an end-run around the legal immigration system. Parole is for “urgent humanitarian reasons” or a “significant public benefit,” each determined “only on a case-by-case basis.” Many presidents have abused the parole authority, but the Biden administration has taken the abuse to a new level by waving through visa-less migrants on a mass scale, even to the point of offering parole to hundreds of thousands of people who have yet to travel to the U.S.
Potential migrants from all around the world have watched and learned, and now they’re making the trip themselves. Rather than stopping them, the administration is merely trying to steer them away from the unmanned sections of the border and toward ports of entry, where they can receive parole with immediate work permits, plus eligibility for most federal welfare programs within five years. No end to the flow is in sight, and why would there be?
A virtually open-door immigration policy appears to be the new normal as long as a Democrat occupies the White House. The political ramifications of this development are difficult to overstate. For one thing, a legislative compromise that exchanges amnesty for reduced immigration is now even less plausible than before, owing to the loss of any remaining trust. After all, if a presidential administration is willing to turn a limited provision such as parole into a license to admit whomever it wants in whatever numbers it wants, it is difficult to imagine any new statutory language that would compel enforcement. A Democratic president can pocket whatever amnesty Republicans offer, continue to admit migrants without visas, then claim another amnesty is necessary.
There is a broader ramification as well. Put simply, uncontrolled immigration is anathema to the conservative movement. It changes the culture in ways both obvious and subtle. It undermines the shared sense of purpose and belonging that undergirds strong communities. It welcomes entire groups of people into the U.S. without the consent of Congress. Naturally, Republicans feel betrayed by their counterparts’ open defiance of immigration controls. There is much concern these days about norm violations and breakdown of the rule of law. Facilitating illegal immigration is surely an example of both. How much of this can our democracy endure?
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Report: NYC Migrant Hotel Descends into ‘Free for All’ with Drugs, Alcohol YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images/Google 2:24
One of Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) migrant hotels in midtown Manhattan has descended into a “free for all” as newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens staying at the hotel for free are allegedly doing drugs and drinking “all night,” according to eyewitness reports.
The Row NYC, where Adams has been placing border crossers and illegal aliens free of charge for months, is a “madhouse” and “free for all” after dark, according to one migrant who told the New York Post that migrant occupants of the hotel do drugs and drink through the night outside the hotel’s doorsteps.
“People [are] drinking aguardiente and smoking weed outside all night since we can’t bring that in,” the man told the Post . “The police have come and pushed them out some nights so now they gather at the corners.”
In some cases, migrant children allegedly join in on drugs and drinking outside the hotel.
“I’ve seen 12-, 13-year-olds drinking and smoking outside — a lot of the Venezuelan kids with the men,” the man said. “These kids … they don’t have structure or good role models. My kids are not allowed to follow that and hang out there. They know better.”
Asylum seekers are transferred via city bus from the Port Authority bus terminal to housing facilities in the Bronx and Queens on May 15, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
One such former employee of the Row NYC, Carlos Arellano, told the Post he would see migrant children getting drunk and doing drugs on nearly every shift. Another former employee, in January, said migrants at the hotel were fighting staff, doing drugs in the lobby, and having sex in public.
Since the spring of last year, more than 70,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of New York City — many bused from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
For months, Adams has been giving out lucrative contracts to the city’s powerful real estate industry, which is housing tens of thousands of migrants in hotels. Most recently, for example, New Yorkers are set to foot an annual $75 million bill to put up border crossers and illegal aliens in Manhattan’s iconic Roosevelt Hotel .
Adams claims that waves of illegal immigration have now filled nearly half of all hotel rooms across New York City.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
Recently Arrived Migrant Charged with Throwing Newborn in Trash at NYC Hospital John Lamparski/Getty Images 1:35
A Mexican woman, who arrived in New York City about ten months ago, is now charged with throwing her newborn baby in a trash can at a Staten Island hospital.
Lucia Garcia, a 21-year-old woman who arrived in New York City from Mexico just ten months ago, is charged with two counts of reckless endangerment, two counts of assault, and another count for acting in a manner injurious to a child.
According to the New York Post , Garcia’s father brought her to Staten Island University Hospital after she complained about not feeling well, but she denied being pregnant. Police officials said Garcia went into a bathroom in the hospital and came out soaked in blood.
Employees assumed she was hemorrhaging and needed immediate medical attention, but when they entered the bathroom to clean it, they found a newborn baby boy in the trash can and immediately turned him over for medical care.
The baby boy is currently being treated at NYU Langone.
In an interview with the Post , Garcia said she “thought it was just blood” and “didn’t know I put my baby in the trash until the nurse told me later.” The woman was 32 weeks pregnant.
While Garcia’s father has lived in New York City for about four years, she recently arrived last July after a trek from Mexico and has applied for asylum. Garcia’s mother remains in Mexico.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
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