Immigration Emergency Extended by DeSantis

Immigration Emergency Extended by DeSantis

By The News Service of Florida Florida’s state of emergency due to illegal immigration remains in effect. Gov. Ron DeSantis last week extended the executive order declaring the emergency he first issued in January 2023. The declaration has enabled him to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in three years on immigration enforcement efforts – normally the purview of the federal government. Under state law, a state of emergency issued by a govern…