DeSantis argues that the bill weakens existing ... And the bill places immigration enforcement under Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson rather than the governor. Republican leaders said ...
The governor and legislators had jockeyed to prove that their respective plans for immigration enforcement aligned with ...
The recent feud between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature over immigration is a sign of more jockeying to come among ...
Ron DeSantis' immigration agenda on Monday with ... which is currently held by Wilton Simpson, a Trilby Republican. The bill would establish the agriculture commissioner as the state's chief ...
It still has much of what DeSantis proposed. But in a big about-face, the Legislature shifted authority over state-level immigration enforcement from the governor to the commissioner of agriculture, ...
DeSantis also said part of the leadership's bill (SB 2B/HB 1B) that moves immigration enforcement duties under the office of Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson was unconstitutional. “Agriculture ...
Columnist Steve Bousquet takes stock of the extremely high number of political appointments crossing the desk of Gov. Ron ...