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DeSantis orders Florida National, State Guard members to Texas border (www.orlandosentinel.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he is sending National and Florida State Guard troops to Texas to help that state put up razor wire fences on the southern border, a move in apparent defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the contentious immigration issue.

DeSantis said it would be the “first-ever deployment” for the State Guard, a force he re-established in 2022 after being defunct for 75 years.

But Florida law says the State Guard, which reports directly to the governor, is to be used “exclusively within the state,” and a proposed bill to allow out-of-state deployments has not been passed by the Legislature.

DeSantis spokesman Jeremy Redfern did not respond to a request for comment on the use of the State Guard outside of Florida.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is the most disgusting shit. All of this border cruelty.

I have tried to think of a situation where I would put my family in peril and hand over my life savings for just a chance of a better life, not even a guarantee. I can only imagine the horror that could cause such an action.

These people are not waking up one day and just going across the border. They have journeyed for weeks, even months. Risking everything to cross some of the most treacherous terrain in the world. This is not a decision made lightly.

These are desperate people, and they are people. We may only be an economic collapse away from being just like them.

Nothing justifies intentionally causing harm to another person when your own life is not in direct threat. Most states consider it a crime to set a trap that may maim someone who breaks into your home. In Florida I would be fined or charged if I put up razor wire with the intent of harming any animal, even invasive animals that can be hunted throughout the year on public land.

But with MAGAts, cruelty is the point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I hate this timeline. Fuck all these jerks that keep trying to goad on a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is it only a crisis in Texas and not Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, or California?

I get a lot of people are crossing over, fleeing violence and political unrest but it seems like only Texas is posturing and turning it into a political issue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Texas has the shitest state government of them. Who also love to grandstand the most

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Florida would like a word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

True but still 2nd to Texas. At least until they also have an AG only in power to avoid prison or other charges

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What a sick piece of shit. Ron DeSHithead tries to score political points by putting as much hurt as possible on desperate migrants.

30 years from now, any people reading this post: Ron De Who??? never heard of him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I don't like your nickname of his. It's too hard to say in a quick sentence. His original nickname, Ron DeathSantis is still much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I call her Rhonda Santis, since it's easy and in the spirit of refusing to recognize an individual's self-identified gender, which she supports.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

That is not against the decision unless this is a different one than on the 22nd. I don't belive the decision said new razor wire couldn't be placed. It said that they couldn't stop the federal government from cutting through it to do their job on the otherside. Texas wanted to block the border patrol from doing their job physically and legally then complain that they weren't doing their job. There seems to be another issue here about Florida law and using their guard outside Florida, but that wasn't the issue of the decision I was thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget that, last year, when actual Nazis were goose stepping outside of Disney, Traitor Ron didn't make any effort whatsoever to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why would he try to stop his voters?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Indeed. That's his base.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago

I think that my favorite part of the Bible is where Jesus puts razor wire in the river to keep people from entering his country.

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