Florida Gov. DeSantis signals he will veto immigration bill

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stated Wednesday he plans to veto a Republican-sponsored immigration invoice that was handed by the Florida Legislature this week, marking the most recent salvo in his feud with state GOP lawmakers. 

“The veto pen is prepared,” DeSantis stated in a submit on social platform X following the laws’s passage Tuesday night. 

“The invoice that narrowly handed the Florida legislature final night time fails to honor our guarantees to voters, fails to satisfy the second, and would really weaken state immigration enforcement,” the governor wrote. 

DeSantis’s veto risk comes amid a confrontation between DeSantis and state Home Speaker Daniel Perez (R) and state Senate President Ben Albritton (R). In a shocking transfer Monday, Perez and Albritton gaveled out a particular session proposed by DeSantis to implement President Trump’s immigration agenda. 

As an alternative, the state Legislature leaders launched the Tackling and Reforming Illegal Migration Coverage Act, also referred to as the TRUMP Act. The laws notably calls to make the state’s Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson the chief immigration officer. DeSantis has known as the laws watered down. 

Like DeSantis’s proposals, the laws would improve penalties for noncitizens who vote and people who support noncitizens in voting. Moreover, it could up penalties for people who commit against the law whereas within the U.S. illegally and strips in-state tuition for college students at public universities who got here into the nation illegally.

And whereas the invoice additionally creates a chief of immigration, probably the most evident distinction is that it establishes Simpson because the chief immigration officer. Simpson, who has been floated as a possible 2026 gubernatorial choose, is just not a DeSantis ally.

The occasions mark a possible new period for DeSantis, who has loved loyalty from Republicans within the crimson state, as he seeks to curry favor with Trump. Each side of the controversy have lobbied with Trump over the difficulty.