This morning, we need all hands on deck to respond to yesterday’s New York Times story headlined, “DeSantis Says He Will Veto Immigration Bill in Clash With Lawmakers.” Florida —and President Trump’s immigration agenda— needs your help.

Here’s the short version.

Governor DeSantis called an emergency special legislative session to pass a bill making it easier for Florida to help the federal government achieve mass deportation. The legislators complained, and when —required by law— met, they immediately ended the Governor’s session and started their own session, the political equivalent of a temper tantrum.

They ashcanned the Governor’s proposed bill and drafted their own. It’s terrible. It’s worse than terrible. The bill they passed would make it nearly impossible for President Trump to deport anyone, much less the kind of mass deportations needed. The bill is deceptive, with a name “The TRUMP Act,” suggesting one thing, but would make Florida a sanctuary state in all but name.

There are many reasons why this bill is worse than terrible, but the single worst is that the passed bill would bizarrely move all immigration enforcement under the state’s Agriculture Commissioner. Local law enforcement would be prohibited from talking to ICE — they could only go through the Ag Commissioner’s office. But it gets even worse.

The State’s current Ag Commissioner is Wilton Simpson.

Believe me when I tell you he has an awful record on illegal immigration. But rather than get in those weeds, this is not the first problem we’ve had with Wilton. He was Florida’s Senate President between 2020 and 2022, and in 2021,

Wilton used his Senate President position to try to undermine all our efforts to stop vaccine mandates.  We organized a calling campaign called “5-a-day” starting in the spring of 2021. Thousands of patriots called Florida’s Republican legislators every day imploring them to call a special session to outlaw vaccine mandates in the state. We were eventually successful. The special session on vaccine mandates met that November, and created a precedent for the rest of the country to follow.

But during the summer, as responses from Republican lawmakers seemed less enthusiastic than we were hoping for, I started digging into who was resisting. It was Wilton Simpson. He is a HUGE vaccine mandate fan. Wilton LOVES jabs. He immediately mandated them for the employees of all his businesses. And he was squarely opposed to a special session to ban the mandates he was so in love with.

We finally got it done over Simpson’s behind-the-scenes efforts to stop us. But trust me when I tell you the worst imaginable person to put in charge of illegal immigration in Florida is Wilton Simpson. The worst. I cannot imagine what lawmakers are thinking.

So, I’m asking fellow patrriots to invest two minutes today, in two quick phone calls. Two-for-two. Please call the offices of each of these two Florida lawmakers:

• Senate President Ben Albritton, (850) 487-5027 or (863) 534-0073, (941) 575-5717.
• Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, (850) 717-5116 or (305) 348-1414.

You’ll get a person or voice mail. Here is a short sample script:

Hi, I’m calling about the TRUMP Act. Please stop playing politics with the Governor. Pass his strong bill to support President Trump. Also, involving the Ag Comissioner is insane, nobody thinks that is a good idea or makes any sense. Thank you.

Feel free to use your own words; it’s even more effective that way. The script is just for convenience. At this stage, please be polite and avoid threats.

Even if you aren’t a Floridian, we can’t let this happen in Florida. If Florida collapses into opposing the Trump Agenda, other states will surely follow. There’s a dense fog of political war, so I don’t yet know precisely why Florida’s Republican Legislators are undermining the Governor.