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Gov. of Florida, Ron DeSantis promised on the campaign trail for president on Monday that his administration will change border engagement rules to physically stop drug smugglers using deadly force.
“We’re going to put in place adequate rules. If someone broke into your home to do something bad, you would respond with violence,” DeSantis said while visiting the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday. “But why don’t we do that at the southern border?”
“So if the cartels break through the border wall to get products into this country, they’re going to end up stone cold dead as a result of that bad decision.”
DeSantis added, “If you drop some of these cartel agents, they won’t come again.”
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Republican presidential nominee Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a campaign rally on June 26, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Gov. DeSantis engaged residents and voters when speaking about border security issues at the event. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The Florida Republican was in Texas to unveil his border security agenda, which he promised will “stop the invasion on the southern border.”
“On January 20, 2025, we will be on a mission to stop the invasion on our southern border, to fight the drug cartels that are poisoning our citizens, to build the border wall, and to restore the sovereignty of this nation,” DeSantis said. “We’re done with promises. We’re done with slogans. Now it’s time for action. No excuses. We’ll get the job done.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, details his new border security plan at a news conference along the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 26, 2023. (Fox News – Alexandria Hernandez)
The governor stressed that it is “humiliating as a country not to have control over our own territory”.
And he slammed President Biden, accusing him that “this border because of the neglect of the Biden administration, because of their willful failures, this border is controlled by the Mexican drug cartels. That’s a shame. That’s horrible.”
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Texas plans to place an inflatable barrier along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass to deter illegal immigrants from entering the US (Texas DPS)
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
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