Ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the Florida governor announced he was calling the Florida legislature into a special session beginning the week of Jan. 27. The Monday announcement comes after Trump expressed to Senate Republicans that his administration is aiming for 100 executive orders to be announced beginning on the first day of his administration.

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DeSantis will seek to push the state legislature to enact legislation that makes Florida prepared to help Trump with the deportation, removal, and detention of migrants in the nation unlawfully.

The governor’s team expects that Trump will revive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program, which allows the department to delegate immigration officer functions to local law enforcement.

“We want all of our agencies to be participants in that program when it gets stood back up,” a senior Florida government official told reporters. “We’re going to beef it up, require [local law enforcement] to participate in the most robust program that’s available under 287(g).”

Currently, Florida law effectively focuses on sheriff’s departments following 287(g), but under the special session, DeSantis is hoping that it will “expand that to include municipal law enforcement agencies as well,” the aide said.

DeSantis is also expected to announce the appointment of a state immigration enforcement officer who will coordinate these efforts between Florida’s local law enforcement agencies and the federal government when Trump is back in office.

In 2022, DeSantis signed a budget setting aside millions of dollars to transport migrants outside of Florida to states led by Democratic governors. That same year, DeSantis’s office famously arranged flights to send 50 Venezuelan migrants in San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, prompting criticism from Democrats.

“We want to expand and broaden that program,” the Florida official explained. “Right now, the law is drafted in a way that’s limited to transportation within the United States, but we want to make sure that that law is expanded to transportation, pretty much anywhere, and to broaden it to include potentially detention efforts as well.”

The special session will also seek to ensure local law enforcement agencies are devoting enough resources to aiding the federal government’s immigration crackdown.

“We also intend to require them to make some percentage of their other law enforcement agents available to be trained to perform immigration activities,” said the official. “This doesn’t necessarily mean that they would be taken off the beat in order to do this.”

DeSantis’s office has been in contact with the Trump transition team, according to another senior Florida government official, with the governor’s office expecting a task force of ICE officers to enact sting operations to catch and detain migrants.

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Ahead of this, the governor is seeking to expand state provisions to target migrants involved in gang activities, hoping to increase more “enhancements” against immigrants who vote illegally and commit other crimes, and cracking down on companies that send money overseas to verify the legal status of people sending funds.

In addition, DeSantis wants the legislature to create a provision deeming migrants who have committed crimes a flight risk to dispel from bail and a pretrial release.

Republican state House Speaker Daniel Perez and Republican Senate President Ben Albritton denounced DeSantis calling the legislature into special session before the regular session on March 4 as “premature.”

But DeSantis moved forward with the proclamation calling the special session, prompting approval from Trump.

“Thank you Ron, hopefully other Governors will follow!” Trump said on Truth Social.

In contrast, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), a chief DeSantis foe, and fellow California Democrats approved $50 million in funding to resist Trump’s second administration even as the state battles wildfires.