Karine Jean-Pierre Chides Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis For ‘Playing Politics’ On Southern Border

Governor's Desk
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During Friday’s White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) and other governors potentially enacting stricter immigration laws.
On that same issue, today, Governor Ron DeSantis said that he's also looking at implementing
a law like Texas that would allow Florida to arrest migrants as soon as they cross the
Florida border.
Are you concerned that other governors will be looking into kind of stricter immigration
laws like this?
I'm concerned about the politics that's being played here, instead of dealing with the issue.
Instead of the governor in Florida saying, hey, senators, my senators in my state, we
need to work on the issue at hand here.
There is a bipartisan agreement that is in your chamber, right, that is in the Senate
that was agreed upon in a bipartisan way.
Can you guys move forward with that instead of playing politics?
That's what we want to see.
We want to see an issue actually dealt with that majority of Americans care about.
There is a bipartisan, I cannot say this enough, there is a bipartisan agreement that came
out of the Senate.
Republicans were asked to reject it because of the former president, because of helping
his own politics.
That's not how we should be moving forward as a country.
That is just not, and that's not what the president believes.
