Ron DeSantis is sending Florida law enforcement and National Guard members to the Texas border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Those officers came mostly from the Florida Highway Patrol, the Department of Law Enforcement and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
53% : The Florida personnel in that instance were sent after Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott made an Emergency Management Assistance Compact request, which prompted Republican governors across the country to send state resources to the southern border.
53% : She told NBC News that law enforcement agencies in Florida and Texas have been in contact for over a week.
49% : "We didn't want bureaucracy standing in the way of border security," she added.
38% : In June 2021, DeSantis sent just over 100 Florida law enforcement officers over six weeks to help with what he called at the time "a catastrophe at the southern border under the Biden Administration."

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