DeSantis faces GOP resistance to special legislative session on immigration that starts today

A peculiar legislative league called by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to instrumentality up a bid of proposals to assistance instrumentality President Donald Trump's migration crackdown gets underway connected Monday.

However, with pushback from apical Republican lawmakers who telephone the league "premature," it is unclear if immoderate measures volition beryllium considered.

DeSantis wants lawmakers to walk bills that would enactment the president's flurry of migration and borderline enforcement orders, signed since past Monday's inauguration, and Trump's plans for wide deportation of amerciable immigrants.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, speaks arsenic Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, right, listens earlier President-elect Donald Trump talks astatine a gathering with Republican governors astatine Mar-a-Lago connected Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, successful Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The politician wants to mandate that Florida's counties and cities enactment successful the national deportation programme and wants the powerfulness to suspend officials who bash not comply. He is besides proposing to marque it a authorities transgression to participate the federation illegally, and helium wants to mandate that radical amusement recognition and their migration presumption earlier sending wealth backmost home.

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"We've got to marque definite that we are moving hand-in-hand with the Trump administration," DeSantis emphasized past week successful an interrogation connected Fox News' "Ingraham Angle."

He added that the peculiar legislative league would assistance "to facilitate the Trump administration's mission."

The Florida State Capitol Building, arsenic seen successful Tallahassee, Florida.  (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

Eleven bills were filed connected the eve of the peculiar league by Florida lawmakers. Among them are measures to make a authorities migration czar and to let the politician to activate the nationalist and authorities guards for immigration enforcement.

Under Florida's constitution, if the politician calls for a peculiar session, lawmakers are obligated to amusement up astatine the capitol successful Tallahassee. However, the apical Republicans successful the authorities House and Senate accidental that portion they enactment Trump's migration efforts, the peculiar league is unnecessary with the regularly scheduled legislative league scheduled for aboriginal March.

"It's not premature," DeSantis told Fox News. "We've been waiting 4 years to person a spouse successful Washington, D.C., connected this issue. We person a consciousness of urgency. We person to get the occupation done. No much dragging your feet." 

DeSantis, who waged a bitter and unsuccessful superior situation against Trump for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination, was praised by the then-president-elect earlier this month.

"Thank you Ron, hopefully different governors volition follow!" Trump wrote successful a societal media station aft DeSantis announced the peculiar session.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks astatine a run halt successful Hampton, New Hampshire, connected Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

However, the pushback by GOP authorities lawmakers implicit the calling of the peculiar league is simply a melodramatic crook of events for DeSantis, who agelong enjoyed monolithic power implicit the Florida legislature, particularly aft his astir 20-point re-election successful 2022.

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Following his unsuccessful 2024 White House bid, the lame duck politician does not look to person the aforesaid clout implicit lawmakers that helium erstwhile enjoyed.

Pushing backmost against absorption to his plans, DeSantis has warned that immoderate lawmaker who stood successful his mode implicit the peculiar league would wage a governmental price.