Florida Politics reports:
Consistent with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for legislation aligning with what President Donald Trump seeks from state efforts to fight illegal immigration, Spring Hill Republican Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed legislation on Sunday that satisfies a robust range of crackdown targets.
Senate Bill 2A offers a version of the “rebuttable presumption” DeSantis wanted, one that assumes detained illegal immigrants will flee and “are flight risks,” denying them bail when they are brought up on charges.
Senate Bill 4A compels local law enforcement to “support the enforcement of federal immigration law,” by “requiring, rather than authorizing, law enforcement agencies to transport” undocumented immigrants “to federal custody outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency.”
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Ingoglia last appeared here in December 2024 when he filed a bill declaring that Florida residents have no inherent right to clean water.
Earlier last year he appeared here for his bill that would mandate teaching that Democrats were behind slavery.
Before that he appeared here for a bill to undermine teachers unions and a bill that would have banned giving water to people waiting in line to vote.
His February 2023 bill to ban the Democratic Party from operating in Florida never got a hearing.
In May 2023, the state legislature passed his bill to retroactively invalidate Disney’s agreement with its special district’s outgoing board.
Ingoglia is the ex-chair of the Florida Republican Party.
.@GovGoneWild files raft of immigration crackdown bills ahead of Special Session, fulfilling many @GovRonDeSantis wish list items
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