DeSantis activates National Guard to deter migrants-blasts 'inept' Biden's 'failure'

Valletta said:

We have an international disaster, the numbers of invaders are increasing in huge numbers, more than half a million more in Joe's second year than first. The cartels now have taken in huge amounts of money courtesy of Joe and are increasingly more and more powerful. I don't know if the Mexican or U.S. governments in their current state will be able to stop the cartels, they can buy off people in the U.S. and Mexican administrations. Only now that Joe's base is starting to take small actions, the Democrat mayor of New York City, the Democrat governor of Colorado, is the writing on the wall for Joe's administration and Joe finally is forced into actually going to the border. But it will do little if any good at this time.

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Valletta said:

We have an international disaster, the numbers of invaders are increasing in huge numbers, more than half a million more in Joe's second year than first. The cartels now have taken in huge amounts of money courtesy of Joe and are increasingly more and more powerful. I don't know if the Mexican or U.S. governments in their current state will be able to stop the cartels, they can buy off people in the U.S. and Mexican administrations. Only now that Joe's base is starting to take small actions, the Democrat mayor of New York City, the Democrat governor of Colorado, is the writing on the wall for Joe's administration and Joe finally is forced into actually going to the border. But it will do little if any good at this time.

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ThatRobGuy said:

While I would agree with DeSantis about the current administration's inaction being a problem with regards to border security (and have had a pretty positive view of DeSantis in his handling of other issues). I think the "activating the national guard" thing is a little more for show than substance. That feels like more of a "Trump move". He should just stick with what he's been doing as it's been working.

Per the article:
DeSantis activated the state National Guard in response to 90 Cuban migrants who were apprehended after a series of five landings in the Florida Keys over the last 24 hours.

'As the negative impacts of Biden's lawless immigration policies continue unabated, the burden of the Biden administration's failure falls on local law enforcement who lack the resources to deal with the crisis,' DeSantis said.

'That is why I am activating the National Guard and directing state resources to help alleviate the strain on local resources. When Biden continues to ignore his legal responsibilities, we will step in to support our communities.'

The move comes after at least 500 migrants arrived in waves earlier this week due to soaring inflations and food shortages in Cuba.


Seems like activating the national guard is overkill given the low numbers that FL experiences compared to border states. Per the DOJ, there are 1500 gangs (who collectively have 65,000 members) in the state of Florida. All of whom are more violent and pose a bigger threat than almost any Cuban trying to get the heck out of Cuba (and who could blame them, it's a terrible socialist hellhole). If you don't need to activate the national guard to deal with 1500 gangs, then you certainly don't need to activate them for 500 poor people floating over on makeshift rafts.


Not to mention, a move like this could backfire for him. A lot of gains he's made with the Hispanic community in Florida has been due to the fact that Florida has a large Cuban community...and Cubans don't vote the same way other Hispanic groups do. Cubans have been far more conservative leaning due to their bad run-ins with communism and socialism in their country of origin.

That could change if the guy they currently admire does a PR stunt involving activating the national guard to keep their cousins out (their cousins, who in all likelihood, would apply for asylum and citizenship status pretty quickly, and start voting republican as soon as they're eligible)


While DeSantis put up a commanding victory in this last election winning by well over a million votes...there are well over a million Cuban Americans living in Florida (and nearly two thirds of them vote GOP). That's not a group he can afford to alienate.

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FireDragon76 said:

Under US law, Cubans that land on US shores are entitled to be here (the so-called "Wet foot/dry foot" law)

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