Leaked Video Proves DeSantis Using Immigrants As Political Stunt

Republican lawmakers in Florida held an emergency meeting this week where they BEGGED immigrants to stay in the state. The state is about to experience massive economic pain thanks to Ron DeSantis’ recent bill targeting migrant workers in Florida. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Republican lawmakers in Florida held an emergency meeting this week where they begged, they begged immigrants to, please, please stay in Florida. The state's about to experience massive economic pain thanks to Ron DeSantis, the guy who's running for president. His recent bill targets migrant workers in Florida, and it's really, really bad for Florida, possibly the entire southeast. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about it. Farron, you know this story, this story is nauseating. If there's somebody that's followed this from beginning to know what these creeps have done behind closed doors, pick it up.

Yeah. What we saw this week was down in Hialeah, Florida, you had three Republican lawmakers, and we gotta name 'em. State Representative Alina Garcia, Rick Roth, and Juan Barquin held this meeting in South Florida behind closed doors. They've got their business leaders who are freaked out about the thought of losing all their migrant labor. So these lawmakers get up on stage and it's all on video, and they tell them, listen, there's no teeth in this bill. It's all for politics. It's all for show.

Right.

So what you have to do is you gotta tell your migrant workers, don't leave. Tell your migrant workers to tell their migrant friends, don't leave the state, because we're all panicked about it. And this is, again, this is all on video. Thomas Kennedy, reporter from South Florida caught it all.

So do you think this guy who's running for president didn't know that? Didn't know that this was a show, and then all of a sudden the construction industry is calling Tallahassee saying, what the hell? What have you done? This is our workforce. We can't build houses without them. We can't put roofs on houses without 'em. The citrus industry saying, who in the world do you think is gonna pick the oranges now? They're calling him, they're calling Republican representatives to say, have you gone frigging crazy? Because what's happening is they understand this. The entire GDP of Florida is going to be in the tank. So now we learn, they knew that all along. This was a scare tactic. This was all about the culture wars. We want to out culture war Trump. We wanna look so far to the right that we look like crazy people. Well, he's done it. He looks like a crazy man and the idiots in Tallahassee look even crazier, don't they?

They really do. And I'm glad you used that phrase, scare tactic, because that is what those lawmakers in, down in South Florida said. They said, this law is just a scare tactic. The goal is to keep people, migrants, from coming into Florida. We don't wanna lose the ones we've got. It's one of those, you know, you are the good ones. We don't want the other ones coming in here.

We don't want the bad ones. It's all about mobility. This is what they miss, totally. Well, I don't think they missed it. I think they had closed door meetings. I promise you, they had closed door meetings in Tallahassee and you had a bunch of cigar smoking punks talking about the idea, this is perfect. We're gonna scare the hell out of everybody. We're gonna, out of immigrants, we're gonna look like we're right of Attila the Hun. We're gonna look like we're winning the culture war. And all of a sudden this meeting takes place in, down in Hialeah County and they say, look, it was just a show. The crazy man here was just putting on a show.