DeSantis enacts tough anti-illegal immigration laws amidst worsening Biden border crisis.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Strongest Anti-Illegal Immigration Legislation

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed the illegal immigration laws amidst worsening Biden border crisis.”>strongest anti-illegal immigration legislation into law, making Florida the largest state in the Union to make E-Verify mandatory for employment. This comes as President Joe Biden’s crisis on the U.S. southern border is set to dramatically worsen this week with the ending of Title 42.

DeSantis Takes a Stand Against the Biden Border Crisis

“The Biden Border Crisis has wreaked havoc across the United States and has put Americans in danger,” DeSantis said in a statement. “In Florida, we will not stand idly by while the federal government abandons its lawful duties to protect our country.”

“The legislation I signed today gives Florida the most ambitious anti-illegal immigration laws in the country, fighting back against reckless federal government policies and ensuring the Florida taxpayers are not footing the bill for illegal immigration,” he added.

What the Law Does

• Requires employers to use E-Verify to check the employment eligibility of employees, and fines employers who fail to use E-Verify $1,000 per day.
• 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.
• Provides $12 million to continue the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program to relocate illegal immigrants to sanctuary jurisdictions.
• 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.

The New York Times said last month that DeSantis’ legislative push was “the toughest crackdown” on illegal immigration by any state in the country.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Slams Biden

The crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border is set to explode on Thursday with the ending of Title 42, although the Biden administration did bring back a Trump-era immigration rule this week that disqualifies migrants from applying for asylum in the U.S. if they neglected to first apply for asylum in other countries they traveled through, such as Mexico. Hundreds of asylum officers were trained in how to enforce the rule on Tuesday ahead of Title 42’s expiration.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott slammed Biden this week in an interview, saying that his policies are singlehandedly responsible for the crisis and that Biden’s last minute attempts to fix the problem were a slap in face to the states suffering from the crisis.

Abbott laughed at Biden’s attempt to place a small number of troops along the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, saying that Biden was sending them there “to do paperwork, and he’s not going to secure the border.”

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