A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor says Northeast Florida locals are stoked about their new, temporary neighbors who await removal to their countries of origin.
During a press conference in Arcadia, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the people of Baker County — where the state’s shuttered Baker Correctional Institution will be revived under the aegis of the alliterative “Deportation Depot” to temporarily hold undocumented immigrants before they are flown back home — are “probably excited” about the facility.
“I got 90% of the vote in Baker County,” DeSantis recalled about his cakewalk re-election in 2022.
The excitement is not unanimous, however. As Fresh Take Florida reported, various residents call the concept “stupid” and “too close to home.”
But elections have consequences.
The Governor went on to compare his victories in Baker and other rural redoubts to the titanic triumphs of a former dictator and onetime American ally turned mortal enemy who had no concerns about election security during his bloody, brutal reign.
“If you look at … these rural counties … we were getting Saddam Hussein margins,” DeSantis quipped. “That wasn’t us, people just did it. They were 90, 88, 90, 92% in some of those counties.”
DeSantis has suggested that the revived prison will be a boon to local businesses, including the Busy Bee on the way to the Lake City Airport from where inmates will be flown to their final destinations.
Proponents and opponents alike will soon find out. The facility should open in the next few weeks.
