Florida is once again ready to facilitate air travel for illegal immigrants.
And as before, Gov. Ron DeSantis proposes one-way trips.
During an appearance on Wednesday’s “Ingraham Angle,” the Governor said Florida could “do more” in the fight against illegal immigration.
But one thing’s stopping the state: a lack of a “green light” from the Donald Trump administration to revive “Air DeSantis.”
“We can run flights to El Salvador, wherever they need to,” DeSantis promised.
The Governor, of course, facilitated migrant flights from Texas to California and Martha’s Vineyard as well in the run-up to his presidential campaign.
But while he had previously pitched Florida as a useful funnel to internment camps at Guantanamo Bay, this TV hit was his first suggestion that the Sunshine State could transport suspected illegal immigrants to the increasingly infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT).
DeSantis also said he needed the “blessing” of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to do more with the undocumented immigrants in the state, saying the state has ample assets ready and willing to go to work.
“We will go in, we won’t even need DHS to necessarily be there. We will go in, we’ll find them. We have tens of thousands of illegals in Florida that are already on deportation orders. So you hear all this about due process. They’ve already been processed and have been ordered to be removed. We can go in and get those,” DeSantis said, seemingly dismissing the due process concerns that courts have spotlighted amid extrajudicial repatriation of people in the country illegally.
“What we can do is provide more manpower, more space, and then we can even process, but we need that to be blessed, and we need that to be in tandem,” he added.
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