A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to defend the state as a federal Judge questions a recently passed state law against illegal immigration.
“It is not punishment to be removed from this country,” DeSantis said in Miramar at an event spotlighting Operation Tidal Wave. “If you’re going to be punished, then you get the full panoply of due process, but these are not punishments that are being rendered. It is just the consequence of being here illegally.”
SB 4C proscribes penalties for illegal entry and illegal reentry, mandates imprisonment for being in Florida illegally and capital punishment for any undocumented immigrant who commits capital crimes.
Judge Kathleen Williams, who was originally a Barack Obama appointee to the Southern District of Florida, questions its constitutionality, saying the law conflicts with the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
DeSantis said he expected this outcome, but believes appeals will go the state’s way.
“In terms of this Judge, we are not at all surprised. We knew that they would go in and do that. The Legislature structured that state law in a way that was different from Texas and some of the others that have run into problems. So we actually feel confident that we’ll ultimately be vindicated on that. It should be a crime to enter the state of Florida illegally. We have police power to be able to do that.”
DeSantis has previously said he would take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. That said, he has been a frequent critic of the court as not being conservative enough for him.
And those criticisms recurred Thursday.
“The U.S. Supreme Court can end this charade. They’ve had opportunities to do it, and they haven’t been willing to do it. They’ve created some of the mess in the immigration space with the jurisprudence,” DeSantis said.
Attorney General James Uthmeier has appealed the ruling after Williams ordered that it not be enforced. Williams accused him of circumventing the rule by not explicitly telling law enforcement not to enforce the disputed law.
17 comments
Along for the Ride
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Is anyone going to investigate DeSantis and James Uthmeier on their illegal activities?
Oscar
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 pm
Name one.
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2025 at 7:48 pm
GOP legislator Andrade from the panhandle has laid out the case. Were you out of pocket?
What is needed now is a grand jury investigation and/or DOJ inquiry.
Oscar
May 1, 2025 at 1:23 pm
What do you expect from a third-rate DEI judge appointed by disgraced former president Obama?
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2025 at 7:18 pm
What disgrace do you refer to?
Obama never enriched himself in the multiple ways that DJT has deployed. His administration removed migrants with criminal records or activities — not families.
Are you still clinging to the birther lie, too?
Bill
May 3, 2025 at 8:05 am
Well there was that brown suit incident …. Hard to imagine we’re reached a place where Bush and Obama were the good old days. Pretty sad really.
MH/Duuuval
May 3, 2025 at 10:07 am
Reagan brought the brown suit out of America’s closet.
That Bush and Obama can be in the same bracket indicates a societal loss of memory as W did so much damage to the country.
Oscar
May 5, 2025 at 6:08 pm
Obama inflicted more damage on this country than any president since FDR. By every metric the country is worse off, especially when it comes to our standing on the world stage. Even more disgusting was the pallets of cash he unlawfully gave to Iran – if ever there was a traitorous act that was. How about the red line in Syria that wasn’t. Or maybe you can ask Ambassador Chris Stevens what he thought of his boss only you cannot because he’s dead – the first ambassador to die in the line of duty since 1979. Obama bears full responsibility for the rise of ISIS and his impotent response to its threat – remember he called them the JV team. Is that enough disgrace for you?
JD
May 5, 2025 at 6:12 pm
“Obama was the worst president since FDR”? Let’s look at facts.
When Obama took office, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month. By the time he left, unemployment had dropped below 5 percent, the stock market had tripled, and the auto industry had been saved. That is not failure. That is recovery.
The “pallets of cash to Iran” were funds legally owed to Iran from a decades-old arms deal. The money was theirs, frozen since 1979, and returned as part of an international court settlement. It was not secret and not unlawful.
The “red line in Syria” is a valid criticism, but it’s dishonest to claim he did nothing. A deal was brokered to dismantle Assad’s declared chemical weapons stockpile, which international inspectors confirmed.
Benghazi was a tragedy, but eight Republican-led investigations found no wrongdoing by Obama or Clinton. Ambassador Stevens himself knew the risks and had requested a diplomatic presence there. It is disgraceful to exploit his death for talking points.
ISIS rose out of the chaos created by the Iraq invasion and the disbanding of the Iraqi army. Obama called them a JV team early on, which he later corrected. Under his administration, ISIS lost territory and momentum through a multinational coalition effort.
As for world standing, US favorability abroad improved sharply during Obama’s presidency. That is measurable in global polling data. Diplomacy and leadership restored trust that had been lost.
You can dislike Obama’s policies. But rewriting history to make him a villain only exposes your bias, not his record.
Oscar
May 7, 2025 at 1:31 pm
Hilarious! You are such a pathetic sycophant and could not be more wrong on every single point. No need to rewrite the history of his disgraceful, failed presidency the facts speak for themselves. Plus if he did such a great job why did he leave the Democrats in such utter disarray that they lost thousands of local elections and resorted to foisting the low IQ plagiarist-in-chief Biden and his diversity clown Harris?
ScienceBLVR
May 1, 2025 at 1:57 pm
“It is not punishment to be removed from this country,” DeSantis said
So.. if we ask politely, will Doofus Dee and Dumber GOP leave willingly and deport themselves? Canada won’t let them in, but I hear El Salvador is lovely this time of year..
Michael K
May 1, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Being shipped off to a gulag is not punishment, says the governor who calls the grift of $10 million “a philosophy.”
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Dee’s sophistry, was it learned in the Ivy League?
Oscar
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 pm
If, as ignorant progressives assert, the U.S. is inherently evil, racist and just plain bad how exactly can removal be a punishment? If the U.S. truly is as dimwitted progressives argue then removal would be a most welcome reprieve. Of course, as is always the case, progressives are utterly incorrect otherwise why would so many millions want to come here. Logical consistency is not a hallmark of the left.
JD
May 5, 2025 at 6:15 pm
The “progressives hate America” line is lazy propaganda. It is not about facts. It is about silencing criticism and stoking division.
Progressives do not believe the U.S. is evil. They believe the country has real problems that need fixing. Racism, inequality, corruption. Ignoring those does not make you patriotic. It makes you part of the cover-up.
The logic here is ridiculous. Millions want to move here, so we must be perfect? That is like saying your house has no plumbing issues because guests still come over. Loving a country means being willing to improve it, not pretending it is flawless.
This isn’t patriotism. It is gaslighting. Criticism is not hatred. It is accountability. And some people “cannot handle the truth”.
Oscar
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 pm
When the left has informed criticism to share I’ll gladly listen. In the meantime, America is sick and tired of over-educated, over-opinionated, over-credentialed hysterical know-nothing progressives telling them what to think, what to say, what to eat, what to drive and what to buy. As for silencing criticism and stoking division, me thinks he doth protest too much. That is almost verbatim from the playbook of Marx, Engels, Marcuse, Mills, and many others and a pillar of the progressive lefts current playbook. Keep trying though…
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