Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed the single bill the Florida legislature took up out of session, claiming it sets up Florida to become a “defacto sanctuary state.”

DeSantis called the Florida legislature to meet in a special session to begin supporting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. However, the legislature opted to take up one immigration-related bill instead of the governor’s other recommendations. According to DeSantis, it turns Florida, which has no sanctuary cities, into a state that protects illegal immigrants under the state’s Department of Agriculture.

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“They also bar any involvement with ICE unless you do a ‘mother may I’ from the commissioner of Agriculture. So, what it does is it masquerades as a enforcement bill, but it makes Florida a defacto sanctuary state,” DeSantis explained on Fox News’s One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on Saturday. “Final point is just this, I’ve never seen a more negative reaction for anything the Florida legislature has done from our grassroots than I have seen how they’ve done this bill. It’s almost unanimous — people want this problem solved once and for all. My set of proposals will do it in their set of proposals will make the problem worse.”

Trump thanked DeSantis’s efforts to call the special session and encouraged other governors to follow suit. DeSantis confirmed he is working with this administration.

DeSantis is likely to veto the bill should it pass the House and Senate. However, there is a chance his veto is overriden by a super majority, since the bill is supported by state House Republicans, including House Speaker Daniel Perez and Republican Senate President Ben Albritton.

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The governor claimed that he has constituent support for his proposals, which included issuing criminal penalties for illegal entry, the establishment of an immigration enforcement officer, and mandating compliance with deportations from law enforcement under threat of suspension.

From the day that Perez and Albritton opposed the special session called by DeSantis, he implied they do not have Floridian voters on their side when he said “their constituents obviously will hold them accountable.”