Ron DeSantis ready to take action against illegal border crossers from Canada

DeSantis NH NBD
No word on whether some of them may end up 'stone cold dead,' however.

Ron DeSantis has focused a lot of rhetoric on the border with Mexico, but he sees a security problem at the Canadian border also.

“Not as bad as the southern, but way worse than it’s probably ever been,” DeSantis said. “People know they can fly to Canada and then just come into our country that way.”

DeSantis vowed that the New Hampshire “Governor is not going to have to write a letter to Congress.”

“He can call me and we’ll send what we need to stop it,” DeSantis said Saturday in Manchester, during a Never Back Down meet and greet event.

The Governor stopped far short of prescribing the corrective measures he has advocated for at the Mexican border, however, including during remarks in the Granite State.

During a June town hall in Hollis, New Hampshire, the Florida Governor vowed to render illegal border crossers “stone cold dead.”

“If these cartels are breaking into a wall and cutting a piece out of the wall and moving product in, that’s going to be the last thing that those people have ever done because they’re going to end up stone-cold dead,” DeSantis said to applause.

DeSantis has also suggested that drone strikes may be an appropriate cross-border response to illegal crossers from Mexico.

“We will absolutely reserve the right if they’re invading our country and killing our people,” DeSantis said earlier this month in Iowa.

Whether illegal crossers from Canada will end up “stone cold dead” or if people in Ontario and Quebec can expect drones targeting them remains to be seen, of course.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


9 comments

  • My Take

    August 19, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    A pure and simple(ton) redneck.
    “And I’ll shoot their dogs too!”

  • Dont Say FLA

    August 19, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    I will cross the border from Canada into the USA just a few days from now. Will Ron charter a private jet for me? That would be sweet AF! Thanks in advance to Florida taxpayers!

  • My Take

    August 19, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    Beware the Canadians.
    They proudly wear “mad bomber” hats.
    I kid you not.

  • Bill Pollard

    August 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm

    He’s going to shoot the geese that come down for the winter? What about a stray bear or wolf that crosses the border?

  • My Take

    August 19, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    DeSScamtus really is a defective person.
    On a national stage.
    I wonder how many books are in the works?

  • My Take

    August 20, 2023 at 10:47 am

    I once read of a town or small city were the border ran down the center of a street.
    To go talk to your across-the-street neighbor, you were supposed to go downtown to an official border crossing. Everyone ignores it apparenty.
    Now Ron will need to shoot half of them.

  • Michael K

    August 20, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    Governor DeathSentence has earned the name. Disgusting and perverse joy in cruelty and violence.

  • Silly Wabbit

    August 20, 2023 at 2:35 pm

    He kwazy.

    • Silly Wabbit

      August 20, 2023 at 2:35 pm

      Stewpid, too.

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