By Jim Sonders, Dara Kam and Jim Turner © 2025 Florida’s news
The Tallahassee-Rebelkan Florida legislation will update the laws of immigration this week, but issued a sharp vount on Monday to governor Ron Ron Ron, which included the cancellation of a budget veto last year.
The Chamber and the Senate began and quickly ended a special legislative session that the landing called – and then immediately opened their own special session and released the proposed immigration legislation. The moves came after landing was angry with the speaker of the house Daniel Perez, R-Mayami and the President of the Senate Ben Albrite, R-Wauchula, calling a special session that said it was premature.
“Florida’s legislature matters,” Albrite said. “Our opinions matter. Our votes matter. The Florida Constitution says so. “
Perez said to the house: “I believe special sessions should be used sparingly. They should not be stunts designed to generate titles. And the truth is that I do not like special sessions, because they prevented the very thing that the legislative process must encourage, push and attract meaningful conversations that lead to the development of good and better ideas. Special sessions must be reserved for those issues that cannot really be addressed in the normal course of the legislative process. Most of the issues raised in the proclamation for a special session A (a landing call for the special session) simply do not answer that threshold. “
On January 13, Desantis called a special session to deal with a series of issues, including changes to help pursue President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Other issues that Desantis wanted legislators to benefit include changes in the initiative voting process, providing assistance to the victims of the hurricane, and to deal with the problems that have increased costs for the condominium and residents.
Desantis publishes a statement on Monday X, which said the proposal to immigrate legislature is “significantly more glorious than the suggestions I have outlined and this is necessary to ensure that Florida leads to the execution of the administration’s mandate to Trump to apply the Immigration Act and to deport illegal aliens. “
“This is a unique moment in American history,” Zanthis says in the statement. “We will either restore our sovereignty, obey the law and protect our citizens, or allow that moment to slip away. We need highly immigration legislation, which guarantees that Florida is doing everything possible to help this important federal mission. The legislature bill is a tactics of bait and switching that tries to create the illusion of illegal immigration that breaks down when doing something else. “
Department clearly ranks legislative leaders by calling the special session – and then tried to intensify the pressure on lawmakers to go with their wishes, especially on immigration.
Although he did not directly associate actions to the landing, Perez said “in the last week, attempts were made to harass members of this house, including sending mass emails and text messages with the personal numbers of the members of the members on them. Attacks against this body, attacks against all of you, are not acceptable. This house will never be moved by threats. “
The retreat of the legislature on Monday came after GOP legislators largely went with a firm charging manager since he took office in 2019.
But reporter Mike Caruzo, a Republican from Delrai Beach, who filed a series of bills that would help in the implementation of the priorities of the special session of the landing on immigration and the process of initiative voting, called into question the clash of the legislative power with the landing.
“The Republicans have received their strength because we have stayed together for the last six years and as a result we have received a super majority and now they have the governor and the speaker to each other,” Caruso said. “This is not a way to lead this condition.”
While speculation turned around for two weeks about whether legislators would continue with the special wishes of the landing, perhaps the most surprising move on Monday was almost unanimously abolishing the veto of the landing budget from last year – for the first time the legislative power exceeded the landing S
Desantis vetoed $ 57 million from the legislature budget, which Perez said he was funding a variety of “Backing Operations”. Perez said the legislature should be immersed in reserves to avoid dismissal of employees or exclude operations.
“This veto, at the best case, was a misunderstanding of the importance of appropriation or in the most attempt to endanger the independence of our separate branch of the government,” Perez said.
The members of the Chamber voted unanimously to cancel the veto while the Senate voted 35-1. The only opponent was Senator Blaise Ingoglia, Republican and Tannis ally of Hill.
“As an unwavering fiscal conservative, I do not believe in veto canceling for the purpose of increasing the budget,” Ingoglia said
After the session called Desantis and opened their own session, the Chamber and the Senate launched identical bills (HB 1B and SB 2-B) that deal with immigration problems. With the annual regular legislative session of March 4, MPs will not use the special session to deal with other questions raised by Desantis, such as making changes to the condominium regulations.
Albrite and Perez said they consulted the White House after Trump issued executive orders for the destruction of undocumented immigrants last week.
“I want criminal illegal immigrants to be deported effectively and effectively and the best way to do this is to follow President Trump’s leadership,” Albrite said.
The Chamber and the Senate were planning a committee meetings on Monday afternoon to view the bills, with Perez saying that the full house was expected to vote on Tuesday.
A summary, published by the Chamber and the Senate, stated that the bills include the annulment of a 2014 law that allows undocumented immigrant students to avoid paying higher education percentage outside the state in colleges and universities in Florida if they respond to certain criteria.
Also, according to the summary, measures will provide $ 500 million to assist local law enforcement authorities in the fight against illegal immigration
Among other things, the measures will be cited by the Commissioner for Agriculture Wilton Simpson as the chief immigration director of the state and will set up the State Immigration Office within the framework of the Department of Lawn for its Department.
The landing’s statement blown up this part of the bill.
“By providing the law enforcement to the agricultural part of the state government, this guarantees that the implementation never actually happens,” Zoanthis says in the statement. “In short, she puts the fox responsible for the hen’s house.”