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The Erick Erickson Show

Governor Ron DeSantis

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Governor Ron DeSantis joins the program.

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0:00.0

The biggest domestic story, I suppose, has been generated by my next guest who's joining me

0:06.0

out of the gate today. The governor of the wonderful state of Florida, Ron DeSantis, joins me.

0:11.3

Governor, how are you?

0:12.6

I'm doing good. How are you doing?

0:14.3

I'm great. So I really, really actually want to talk about Florida, your re-election and

0:19.2

the future of the state. But I got to ask

0:21.7

you out of the gate, if you would, just kind of explain the rationale for moving the illegal aliens

0:27.8

to Martha's Vineyard. And I want to give you a chance to kind of address that I think

0:32.3

nonsensical story that none of these people knew where they were going. Well, yeah, on the second

0:37.1

part, so this is done with a vendor that the state of Florida

0:40.4

has contracted with, and the vendor got written consent forms from everybody that was transported,

0:47.0

also provided a packet that had a map of Martha's Vineyard, numbers on the Vineyard for

0:53.0

social services, as well as for the state of

0:55.2

Massachusetts. So there was no doubt that that's where they were going. And in fact, when they

1:01.1

were getting ready to do the transport, there were some of the migrants who said, you know what,

1:05.6

you know, we don't want to go to Massachusetts. And so they ended up not going. So it was purely

1:09.6

voluntary and it was that,

1:10.9

and here's the thing. The policy that we have is simply, I would like to see President Trump's

1:15.7

border policies reinstituted. I mean, most of the people coming across the border illegally

1:20.0

are making effectively bogus asylum claims. So if they're making asylum claims that we know

1:26.6

95 plus percent are not going to be

1:28.6

valid or 90 percent, they should wait in Mexico, let that claim be adjudicated. If they have a

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