SB2 Identifies Worthless Legislators

Governor DeSantis just vetoed SB2 that was passed in Special Session B, the protest session. It’s a good time to go back and look at that bill in detail and the voting records of all the controlled opposition RINOs who would rather push globalist open-borders policies than back Governor DeSantis’s immigration plans.

As Daniel Horowitz just posted on X,  these guys are basically the Gaza “civilians” to Hamas. They look innocent, but they’re doing the same job as the people trying to destroy our state and our nation.

SB2 was cynically titled “Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy (TRUMP) Act.” They were counting on Trump and his supporters to blindly support the bill because of the name. Daniel called it the open borders bill.

Before getting into the horrid details, let’s look at the votes. The bill was sponsored by Joe Gruters (R; D22, Sarasota and Manatee Counties) and Randy Fine (R; D19, Brevard County). Here are 11 other worthless Republicans that need to be primaried based on the party-line vote (12-6) in the Senate Appropriations Committee. (Ileana Garcia, R, absent)

SB2 passed in the Senate (21-16) with 3 absent; only 6 Republicans voted no. The only decent Republicans in the state Senate are subset of this list of six. The rest are either shills for Joe Gruters or too spineless to be effective.

• Jennifer Bradley (R; D6, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Union, Alachua)
• Alexis Calatayud (R; D38, Miami-Dade County)
• Jay Collins (R; D14, Hillsborough County) *
• Erin Grall (R; D29, Glades, Highlands, Indian River, Okeechobee, St. Lucie) *
• Blaise Ingoglia (R; D11, Citrus, Hernando, Sumter, Pasco)
• Jonathan Martin (R; D33, Lee County) *
  *These 3 voted yes in committee and then voted no on the floor

The House is even worse than the Senate. The bill passed in the House (82-30) with 7 not voting. Only one Republican voted no and one didn’t vote because he couldn’t be bother to show up for the session.

• Mike Caruso (R; D87; Palm Beach County)
• Conveniently absent: Chad Johnson (R; D22, Gilchrist, Levy, Alachua)

The petty Republican leadership in the House attacked Mike Caruso for being the only Republican House member to vote against the bill. Caruso referred to SB2 as a “weak pro amnesty bill” that was “intentionally created to mislead Floridians into thinking it was doing something that it wasn’t.” He said many legislators were told not to read the bill and just vote in line with leadership. In an X post, Caruso detailed the retaliation:

• Stripped of committee chairmanship
• Office was taken away

Why was SB2 so bad? Here are the main reasons:

• Makes the Commissioner of Agriculture the chief immigration officer and the sole liaison to entities regarding federal immigration laws
• Creates new bureaucracy: Office of State Immigration Enforcement (OSIE) within Division of Law Enforcement (also new) under Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; $20.5M recurring budget, 142 FTE positions
• Puts OSIE in charge of E-Verify compliance

Here’s a detailed summary of the text of the final version, a 2,226 line monstrosity pushed through in under48 hours. There are a couple good provisions, but it’s mostly bad.

• Creates 104.155. 3rd degree felony for unauthorized alien to vote in election; 3rd degree felony to aid or solicit unauthorized alien to vote
• Amend 252.36. Prevents Governor from claiming immigration enforcement from Ag Commission using emergency powers
• Amend 288.061. Puts OSIE in charge of determining E-Verify compliance
• Amend 319.001 & 320.01. Defines “valid passport”
• Amend 322.02. Driver license and state ID cards to US citizens and individuals lawfully present
• Amend 322.033. No driver license to unauthorized alien; renames “undocumented immigrant” with “unauthorized alien”
• Amend 322.08. Add “complies with the federal REAL ID Act of 2005”
• Amend 322.121 & 322.19. Requires driver license holders to notify of change in citizenship status within 30 days
• Amend 395.3027. Adds chief immigration officer in Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to report list for “Patient immigration status data collection”
• Amend 448.09 & 448.095. OSIE responsible to enforce E-Verity
• Amend 480.0535. Defines “dangerous unauthorized alien offender” (DUAO); state attorney determines DUAO; requires separate proceeding to prove; mandatory minimum sentences for DUAO (no parole or early release):
  • Life felony = life
  • 1st degree felony = 30 years
  • 2nd degree felony = 15 years
  • 3rd degree felony = 5 years
• Amend 775.0848. Upgrades sentencing classification for unauthorized aliens
  • 2rd degree misdemeanor reclassified to 1st degree misdemeanor
  • 1st degree misdemeanor reclassified to 3rd degree felony
• Amend 874.03. Adds “transnational crime organizations” to definition of “criminal gang”
• Amend 895.02. Adds “aiding or soliciting an unauthorized alien in voting” to “racketeering activity”
• Amend 903.046 & 907.041. Allows court to consider immigration status to determine bail or pretrial detention
• Amend 908.101 & 908.102. Commissioner of Agriculture as “Chief immigration officer” and sole liaison to federal immigration laws
• Creates 908.1031. Creates Office of State Immigration Enforcement within Division of Law Enforcement under Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• Creates 908.1041. Requires cooperation with Federal Government in enforcement of federal immigration laws; state entities and state law enforcement must coordinate with OSIE
• Creates 908.1042. Creates State Immigration Enforcement Council (composed of minimum 7 sheriffs and 4 police chiefs) appointed by chief immigration officer
• Amend 908.105. Law enforcement agency with custody of person subject to immigration detainer must notify state attorney; requires chief immigration office to initiate judicial proceeding to enforce compliance on any county, district, authority municipality or other local government that refuses to comply with immigration detainer; civil fine of $5,000 (can’t use public funds to defend or reimburse)
• Amends 908.107. Enforcement details for 908.105
• Amends 908.11. Chief immigration officer must approve termination of any agreements with US ICE
• Creates 908.13. Emergency powers of chief immigration officer
• Amends 921.00022. Admin clean up (adds 104.155 to criminal punishment code)
• Creates 921.1426. Unauthorized alien guilty of capital offense gets mandatory death penalty
• Amend 943.03 & 943.03101. Removes immigration enforcement from Department of Law Enforcement; requires coordination with OSIE
• Amend 1009.26. Removes undocumented immigrants from out-of-state fee waivers
  *** This provision is why all the Democrats voted against SB2 ***
• Updates Section 1 of Chapter 2023-3. Creates Division of Law Enforcement under Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; $20.5M recurring funds and $484K I nonrecurring funds to DACS to implement this act; details how money is spent; 142 full-time equivalent positions