![]() ![]() They weren’t even in Florida - and were none of the Sunshine State’s business.ĭoes this help DeSantis politically? Especially in California’s March 5 presidential primary, where the biggest bloc of Republican convention delegates - 169 - is at stake? The California-bound immigrants were picked up in El Paso. So, as president, would he deploy jumbo military troop transports to fly thousands of undocumented immigrants from the Texas border to California?Īs governor, DeSantis got the Florida Legislature to authorize $22 million in tax money to fly immigrants from red states into blue states. “But if there‘s a policy to have an open border, then I think the sanctuary jurisdictions should be the ones that have to bear that.” “The border should be closed,” DeSantis said. He asserted that California deserves the immigrants because it’s a so-called sanctuary state that restricts local law enforcement involvement in federal efforts to deport people living here illegally. That’s not how you treat people.”ĭeSantis, after initially being silent about his involvement, finally fessed up and defended the action. There was never any intention to do any of that. They were told - the ones I spoke to - that if they got on the plane they would get jobs and help with food and shelter. “They were treated cruelly by an official state action. It could be the basis for civil or criminal liability - subject to a year or more prison time.”įor who? “It could be anybody from the governor ,” Bonta said. “And lying to move individuals hundreds of miles west, that’s deception. I am seeing deception, false representation, unkept promises. “Kidnapping requires force or fear,” Bonta told me. Rob Bonta pretty much ruled out charging DeSantis or anyone else with kidnapping last week. “Kidnapping charges?” Newsom pondered in a tweet, calling the Florida governor a “small, pathetic man.”Ĭalifornia Atty. In fact, his PAC immediately began using the proposed constitutional amendment to solicit donations.ĭon’t get me wrong, Newsom is absolutely justified in attacking DeSantis for messing with California’s airspace and unloading 36 undocumented immigrants on the capital city of Sacramento. It has no chance of being adopted.īut it makes a nice nationwide talking point for Democratic voters and a lucrative fundraising tool for his new federal political action committee: the Campaign for Democracy. Constitution with a specific set of gun controls. Newsom’s latest attention-grabber last week was to announce he’ll lead an effort to amend the U.S. Meanwhile, to prove his effectiveness as a leader, he should spend more time on the public business he was assigned. If that’s his priority, then he should run next year for the U.S. But he does obviously want to be a national torchbearer for progressive causes. The consensus of political pundits is that Newsom is trying to position himself to run for president, if not next year, in 2028. Rather than focusing full-time on the California problems he was elected to solve - homelessness, unaffordable housing, potential wildfires - Newsom has been sporadically and loudly critiquing the conservative policies of other states. That said, California’s governor also has not shown statesmanlike qualities in recent months by goading DeSantis, Texas Gov. Rash, stubborn, impetuous presidents can create all sorts of havoc, including war.Īlso, do we want a president who treats the most vulnerable people among us as political chess pieces? Who wastes taxpayers’ money trying to show up a nagging critic such as Newsom? ![]() Really, do we want a commander in chief who plays petty, reckless games with our adversaries? A president, say, who buzzes a Chinese warship as payback for a Chinese destroyer cutting across the bow of an American Naval vessel? What makes DeSantis unfit for the Oval Office is how he cavalierly he treated hapless people as political pawns in a crude, uncompassionate effort to bolster his flagging campaign for the Republican presidential nomination while playing “gotcha” with California Democratic Gov. ![]() Both parties exploit the issue in order to fire up their political bases. Members of Congress are trapped in their political silos and can’t muster the courage to venture out and compromise on substantive immigration reform. Any rational person would agree that the border is too porous. It’s not because of his sensible view that we must gain more control of our southern border. Ron DeSantis’ crass stunt of flying desperate immigrants to California and dumping them on the doorstep of a Catholic Diocese headquarters showed us one thing: He’s not fit to be America’s president. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31 in Salix, Iowa. Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. ![]()
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