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DeSantis, a Republican, said Florida is the first state to answer a letter from Govs. Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, both also Republicans, that asked all other states for help in policing the border.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here today because we have problems in Florida that are not organic to Florida that we\u2019ve been forced to deal (with) over many years, but particularly over the last six months, because of the failure of the Biden administration to secure our southern border<\/strong>,\u201d DeSantis said during an event on Wednesday. \u201cAnd, indeed, to really do anything constructive about what is going on in the southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n Law enforcement officials from a number of sheriff\u2019s offices, Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and the Florida Highway Patrol will be sent to the two states, DeSantis said.\u00a0Sheriffs from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Lee, Bay, and Brevard counties joined DeSantis at the news conference.<\/p>\n While DeSantis didn\u2019t elaborate on the nature of the police deployment, he said\u00a0there will be \u201cmore information about the contours of the mutual assistance\u201d in the future.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sure in each one of these sheriff\u2019s departments, they have deputies champing at the bit to be able to go help,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of folks like, \u2018Man, I wish I could do something to help.\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0Well they have an opportunity to do it. I think you\u2019re going to see a lot of hands go up saying, \u2018Hey, send me, I want to be helpful,’\u201d the Republican governor added.<\/p>\n DeSantis also used the press conference to criticize the Biden administration\u2019s immigration policies, saying that President Joe Biden rescinded a number of successful Trump-era mandates designed to curb illegal immigration. Biden has explained that it was necessary to do away with former President Donald Trump\u2019s policies, claiming they were ineffective.<\/p>\n Abbott and Ducey, in their letter dated June 11, called on the other states to spare additional manpower.<\/p>\n “With your help, we can apprehend more of these perpetrators of state and federal crimes, before they can cause problems in your state,” the two governors wrote. They did not make mention of states sending their respective National Guard forces to the border as troops sent to the border cannot legally make arrests.<\/p>\n Data released this week from Customs and Border Protection show agents apprehended some 180,000 individuals who illegally entered the United States in May, which is the highest figure recorded in about two years.\u00a0More than 112,000 of those illegal immigrants were expelled under the Title 42 health provision, which was authorized via an emergency declaration last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n