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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

‘He feels unstoppable’: DeSantis plans to export his chilling immigration policies to the nation

Illustration of couple looking afraid with Ron DeSantis stickers around them
More than a quarter of Florida’s entire workforce was born overseas. Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian

A popular political souvenir in Florida currently is a range of merchandise touting the services of a nonexistent travel company named DeSantis Airlines.

T-shirts, drinks glasses and car decals alike bear the motto “Bringing the border to you”, a mocking commemoration of the time last year when Ron DeSantis, the state’s Republican governor, baited a load of mostly Venezuelan asylum seekers on to two chartered planes in Texas with false promises of jobs and housing in Boston, then promptly dumped them in Martha’s Vineyard.

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