Reaction & Commentary
THEIR BOAT IN THEIR VESSEL THEY HAD FIREARMS THEY HAD DRUGS THEY HAD NIGHT VISION GEAR AND WERE VOTING VERY RECKLESSLY WHICH COULD POTENTIALLY ENDANGER OTHER FOLKS THAT VESSEL WAS INTERDICTED NEAR THE SEBASTIAN INLET AND THOSE ILLEGAL ALIENS WERE TURNED OVER TO THE COAST GUARD FOR DEPORTATION. >> Sean: THIS IS JUST DAYS
AFTER THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED HE WOULD BE SENDING SOLDIERS AND AIRCRAFT AND BOATS TO PROTECT FLORIDA FROM HAITIAN EMIGRANTS FLORIDA GOVERNOR RHONDA SANTOS JOINS US NOW WITH MORE FIRST OF ALL BEFORE WE GET TO THIS SPECIFIC CASE AND THE DRUGS AND GUNS AND THE NIGHTVISION EQUIPMENT WHICH SHOULD SCARE
EVERYBODY LET ME FIRST TAKE NOTE OF THE FACT THAT YOU ARE NOT EVEN COUNTING ON JOE BIDEN TO HELP YOU DO JUST ACTED WITH THE SITUATION RAPIDLY DETERIORATING IN HAYTI KNOWING THE LIKELY OUTCOME OF THAT WOULD BE AN INFLUX INTO THIS COUNTRY YOU DIDN’T GO TO JOE BIDEN BECAUSE
YOU KNEW THAT HE WOULD NOT BE WILLING TO UPHOLD THE LAWS OF OUR COUNTRY YOU WATCH WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN TEXAS AND ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA AND YOU SAID NO, IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN HERE WHAT IS THAT SAY ABOUT JOE BIDEN. >> WELL LOOK SEAN WE TAKE
MATTERS WE STEP UP WE DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN FLORIDA I DON’T EXPECT NECESSARILY TO GET THE HELP THAT I THINK THAT WE ARE ENTITLED TO AND WHAT WE HAVE FOUND OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS IS THE COAST GUARD DOES A GOOD JOB THEY ARE JUST WAY UNDER
RESOURCED BIDEN WILL NOT PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF VESSELS THAT THEY NEEDED TO INTERDICT ALL OF THE SHIPS THAT COME SO I DID I HAVE BEEN SUPPLEMENT IN THEIR EFFORTS FOR YEARS NOW I DID AN EXECUTIVE ORDER IN JANUARY OF 2023 SAW ABOUT 15 MONTHS AGO WHERE WE DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY
AND WE SEARCHED A LOT OF VESSELS SO SINCE JANUARY OF 2023 OUR STATE ASSETS HAVE STOPPED 660 VESSELS NOT ALL FROM HAITI FROM OTHER ISLANDS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND WE HAVE INTERDICTED 13,000 580 ILLEGAL ALIENS SO THAT JUST LEADS TO THIS POINT OUR EXECUTIVE ORDER WE DID THIS WEEK
SUPPLEMENT IN THOSE EFFORTS SO WE HAVE THE STRONGEST PROTECTION THAT OUR SHORELINES HAVE EVER HAD AND YES, WE DID INTERDICTED THE ONE BOAT THAT HAD 25 HAITIANS THAT WERE TRYING TO COME ILLEGALLY WITH GUNS AND DRUGS WE HAVE NOT ALTHOUGH SEEN YET A MASSIVE INFLUX OF BOATS
INTO OUR REGION AND I THINK THAT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW IF YOU TAKE THAT JOURNEY YOU WILL GET STOPPED AND YOU WILL END UP BACK WHERE YOU STARTED SO IT’S NOT WORTH THAT ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM THIS SITUATION FROM WHEN THIS HAPPENED IN YEARS PAST IS
HAITIANS KNOW THAT THE EASIEST WAY TO GET INTO THIS COUNTRY IS NOT TO TAKE A BOAT AND TO LAND ILLEGALLY IN FLORIDA ANYMORE IT IS TO FLY TO MEXICO AND THEN JUST WALK ACROSS THE BORDER THERE HAVE BEEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HAITIANS WHO HAVE DONE THAT ILLEGALLY SO I THINK
THAT THE DYNAMICS ARE UNIQUE ABOUT THE BOTTOM LINE FOR US IS WE WANT TO BE PREPARED I WAS ASKED TODAY AT OUR PRESS CONFERENCE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS WHEN THERE HAS NOT ACTUALLY YET BEEN A MASSIVE INFLUX AND I SAID WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WAIT FOR IT TO HAPPEN?
WE ARE PUTTING OUR ASSETS IN PLACE TO BE OUT TO DEFEND THE STATE. >> Sean: IF YOU HAD WAITED THE DRUGS AND GUNS AND THE GUYS WITH NIGHTVISION THE 25 YOU APPREHENDED THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IT TO YOUR SHORES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ACTING TOO LATE THIS IS A PREDICABLE OUTCOME THAT WE
WILL EXPECT OUT OF HAITI HAS SPLIT A CLEAN HAVE DETERIORATED VERY BADLY THERE AND I HATE TO GIVE YOU, I’M SHOWING YOU PROBABLY YOU ARE YOU KNOW THIS BAD NEWS BUT YOU CAN PAYMENT BE ASSURED THAT JOE BIDEN AND HIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILL BE SUING YOU LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN
SUING GREG HABIT AND ANY OTHER STATE THAT TRIES TO ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT JOE WON’T IN FORCE AND AIDS IN ABETS IN THE BREAKING OF. >> YOU’RE EXACTLY RIGHT WE HAVE THE VESSELS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT FOR ONE OF THANKS BIDEN HAS BEEN DOING IS ABUSING THIS CONCEPT OF PAROLE WHERE HE IS ACTUALLY
COMING IN FLYING IN ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DUMPING THEM INTO PARTS OF UNITED STATES ALL FOR EXAMPLE THERE WAS THE NEWS TODAY OF AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM HAITI WHO IS NOW ARRESTED OR ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A 15-YEAR-OLD WITH DISABILITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS AND THAT WAS SOMEONE THAT BIDEN FLEW INTO
THIS COUNTRY DIDN’T EVEN CROSS ILLEGALLY BIDEN FLEW THEM OVER THE BORDER SO THAT’S THE UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES DON’T THINK THAT WE HAVE ANY PRESIDENT WHO HAS FLOWN IN THIS MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO OUR COUNTRY THERE ARE A LOT OF FACETS TO THIS BUT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE HAVE EVERY
RIGHT TO DO AND THAT IS TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA. >> Sean: FLORIDA GOVERNOR IF YOU DO THAT OR I DO THAT I CAN PUT A MUCH ASSURE YOU THAT WE WOULD BE ARRESTED AND FINGERPRINTED AND HANDCUFFED AND WE WOULD BE SITTING IN A JAIL CELL SOMEWHERE THAT’S CALLED
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND IT’S AMAZING BUT IT’S ALSO SAD MORE IMPORTANTLY IT’S EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY ESPECIALLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE COUNTRIES THAT WE KNOW PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM IRAN AND SYRIA AND EGYPT AND AFGHANISTAN, CHINA, RUSSIA NOT A GOOD SITUATION BUT AS GANGS NOW TAKE OVER HAITI AND THAT SITUATION
WORSENS I WOULD ASSUME THIS WILL GET FAR WORSE AND I HAVE TO ASSUME THAT YOU ARE ON TOP OF THIS AND READY FOR PERHAPS EVEN A MUCH LARGER INFLUX WHICH WOULD MEAN A LOT MORE INTERDICTION FOR EFFORTS ON THE PART OF YOUR STAFF THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE OUT THERE ON THE WATERWAYS.
>> YES, AND ANOTHER FACET TO IT IS WE HAVE FLORIDA CITIZENS WHO ARE IN HAITI AND TRYING TO GET OUT SO I HAVE AUTHORIZED RESCUE FLIGHTS AS WE DID IN ISRAEL AFTER OCTOBER 7th BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO ARE PART OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY GROUPS OR DOING THINGS TO TRY TO
ACTUALLY HELP A VERY TROUBLED COUNTRY AND THEY REALLY ARE DOING GOOD WORK AND THEY NEED TO GET OUT SO WE ARE WORKING ON THAT WE DON’T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING TO PUBLIC THE ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY WE ARE DOING BECAUSE IT’S A VERY DICEY SITUATION BUT WE DO FEEL AN
OBLIGATION TO GO IN AND HELP FLORIDA CITIZENS WHO WERE CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE OF A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION BUT I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT I THINK YOU WILL SEE IT GET WORSE AND WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THE U.S. ROLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES SHOULD BE TO OFFER SUPPORT AND FOR HAITI TO
STABILIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT TO HAVE A MILLION PEOPL
