Reason Article RatingRon DeSantis' immigration playbook is all about big government
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32% Medium Conservative
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52% Very Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
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| "That move -- which singled out a property management company and an online portal that serves nurses -- will affect native-born Floridians as well as undocumented immigrants." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Once you scratch away the rhetoric of fiscal conservatism that surrounds DeSantis' immigration policies, you're left with a dramatic expansion of government power and spending -- the sort of thing the governor wastes no time in criticizing when the other side does it." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Last June, he signed legislation that would force every law enforcement agency in Florida that operates a county detention facility to enter into a so-called 287(g) partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Just last month, he aounced a legislative package that would keep local governments from issuing ID cards to undocumented immigrants and invalidate out-of-state licenses issued to them; require hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status; prohibit out-of-state tuition waivers for undocumented college students; and make it a felony, punishable by up to five years in jail, to knowingly transport, conceal, or harbor an undocumented immigrant (punishable by up to 15 years in jail if the immigrant is a minor)." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "They could finish building the border wall." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "That isn't the only time DeSantis has overridden local decision making in the name of immigration enforcement." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Rep. DeSantis himself co-sponsored a batch of immigration bills that would have increased penalties for first-time illegal entry into the U.S., enhanced penalties and fines for businesses that hired undocumented workers, and directed the secretary of homeland security to build or acquire more migrant detention facilities." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "After he became governor, DeSantis followed through on a campaign promise to ban sanctuary cities in the state, even though Florida didn't have a single sanctuary city." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The border wall is a fitting physical analog for the governor's approach to immigration: showy, ineffective, and needlessly cruel." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "DeSantis has taken many notes on the Trump playbook as he prepares for a likely presidential bid." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "At that point, DeSantis was Florida's top candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination (and then-President Donald Trump's man in the race)." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rep. DeSantis himself co-sponsored a batch of immigration bills that would have increased penalties for first-time illegal entry into the U.S., enhanced penalties and fines for businesses that hired undocumented workers, and directed the secretary of homeland security to build or acquire more migrant detention facilities." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Five years ago, Ron DeSantis was laying out his border policy bona fides on his living room floor." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In addition to fighting Joe Biden and the immigration failure he's got on the border, I'm proud to aounce that we're starting the Never Back Down PAC to build the way and call on Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024, Cuccinelli said on Fox News." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "In addition to fighting Joe Biden and the immigration failure he's got on the border, I'm proud to aounce that we're starting the Never Back Down PAC to build the way and call on Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024, Cuccinelli said on Fox News." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "DeSantis' track record has managed to convert at least one erstwhile Trump ally." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "In 2017, DeSantis defended Trump's authority to institute his so-called Muslim ban, saying that he himself would err on the side of caution because nobody has a right to come here." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "I've talked to people across the country, including people who care an awful lot about this issue, who've been very impressed with Gov. DeSantis' accomplishment in putting a spotlight on the failures of the Biden administration." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "I've talked to people across the country, including people who care an awful lot about this issue, who've been very impressed with Gov. DeSantis' accomplishment in putting a spotlight on the failures of the Biden administration." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
65% : That move -- which singled out a property management company and an online portal that serves nurses -- will affect native-born Floridians as well as undocumented immigrants.58% : Once you scratch away the rhetoric of fiscal conservatism that surrounds DeSantis' immigration policies, you're left with a dramatic expansion of government power and spending -- the sort of thing the governor wastes no time in criticizing when the other side does it.
56% : Last June, he signed legislation that would force every law enforcement agency in Florida that operates a county detention facility to enter into a so-called 287(g) partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
53% : Just last month, he announced a legislative package that would keep local governments from issuing ID cards to undocumented immigrants and invalidate out-of-state licenses issued to them; require hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status; prohibit out-of-state tuition waivers for undocumented college students; and make it a felony, punishable by up to five years in jail, to knowingly transport, conceal, or harbor an undocumented immigrant (punishable by up to 15 years in jail if the immigrant is a minor).
52% : They could finish building the border wall."
51% : That isn't the only time DeSantis has overridden local decision making in the name of immigration enforcement.
50% : Rep. DeSantis himself co-sponsored a batch of immigration bills that would have increased penalties for first-time illegal entry into the U.S., enhanced penalties and fines for businesses that hired undocumented workers, and directed the secretary of homeland security to build or acquire more migrant detention facilities.
42% : After he became governor, DeSantis followed through on a campaign promise to ban sanctuary cities in the state, even though Florida didn't have a single sanctuary city.
38% : The border wall is a fitting physical analog for the governor's approach to immigration: showy, ineffective, and needlessly cruel.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.