Governor Ron DeSantis doesn’t want to give Biden any more leverage than he already has on the border so he’s supporting legislation that will allow him to send his Florida State Guard, that was re-established during COVID, to operate on the border in Texas.

This way Biden has no powers to federalize it like he does with the National Guard.

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Here’s more from Florida’s Voice:

Gov. Ron DeSantis affirmed his support for legislation during a press conference that would allow for Florida to send its state guard to Texas in order to help with the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.

The bill by Rep. Mike Giallombardo, R-Cape Coral, HB 1551, would allow for the Florida State Guard to occupy and operate within other states, so long as the other states have a mutual agreement on the matter with Florida.

“I think that what’s happening in Texas is not just a Texas issue, it’s an American issue,” DeSantis said. “And you have a situation where you’ve had over 8 million people pour into this country illegally just in the last three years.”

He explained that Florida has previously had people help out at the border during various surges that it experienced over the years.

“You’ve got people from China, you’ve got people from Iran, other parts of the Middle East, North Africa, Russia. This is not just people coming from Mexico,” he added.

“A lot of the people, anyone that wants to do us harm will look at that border as the easiest, softest underbelly this country has right now,” DeSantis continued

The governor argued that the constitution was not designed for the federal government to “prohibit” states from exercising their rights. He mentioned that it was important for the states to stand up in order to “ensure the sovereignty of their territory.”

DeSantis also touched on how he has sent various people to help not just with the immigration issues in the past, but also natural disaster recovery.

He additionally spoke on why the state guard was re-established in 2022, primarily to combat the federal governments coronavirus vaccine mandates on federal troops.

“So we did the state guard partially for that, but then for partially it’s just you control your own destiny with the state guard,” DeSantis said. “I mean, the federal government will grab our national guardsman and they’ll send them all over the world in some of these missions.”

“So why should we just have people who get plucked out of here to be doing whatever these guys in Washington want,” he continued. “If these are people serving the state then we want to be able to have control over that.”