Ron DeSantis Teases Building New ICE Facility At Camp Blanding In Florida To Speed Deportations

During a press briefing on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was asked about speeding up deportations.

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00:00in that specific goals or estimates for how fast do you get the process in here from the minute

00:07these illegal immigrants show up here to when they're throwing the points? Well, if you think

00:11about it, I mean, we have, you know, 50, 70, 80,000 illegals that are on final orders of removal

00:18already in Florida at a minimum, right? And so, you know, we would love to be able to get that

00:22cadence going very quickly to where we burn through that expeditiously. Then some of the

00:28others that are still going through some of the process, we want to be part of helping supplement

00:33that process with our personnel to be able to move that back quickly. But I mean, you know, if you

00:38look at the numbers, I mean, obviously, the deportations that have happened nationwide so

00:43far, you know, and ICE has been understaffed, you know, is not scratching the surface of what would

00:47need to be done to get to where you have the largest mass deportation in history and where

00:53you're even just addressing the Biden people, right? So you got to increase that tempo. You

00:58have a limited amount of time to do it. And I think we've got to assume, you know, we've

01:02got these four years under the Trump administration to really get the job done. So my hope is that

01:08we have a very strong cadence coming out of here. If the cadence is strong and it justifies us going

01:14up northeast Florida and establishing a footprint at Camp Blanding, we will do that. But for us,

01:20the reason why we're in this is because we want this tied to helping DHS remove these folks.

01:25That to us is the critical element that we want to see done. And then I think quite frankly,

01:30the voters want to see done.