As I discuss Florida, Florida is getting tougher and tougher on immigration. Governor dissent is
not playing with immigration in Florida. And so in this session, I'm gonna talk with you
about the latest move by the governor to really crack down on immigration. If you're in Florida
or you have relatives who live in Florida, you're gonna wanna be part of this session
and certainly share the video with your feed, share it with other people because, um,
if they're in Florida in particular, um, they should watch this. Okay. For those of you who are
new to me, welcome as you're joining in I'm Latoya McBean POY and immigration lawyer in New York,
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Guys, this immigration issue is so important, uh, that we're gonna discuss in this session again,
as you're coming on board, say, hello, how you're feeling and where you're watching me from. And so
we did cover this issue in one of our recent top immigration new, uh, newsletters, um, that
went out just a couple of days ago. And guys I'm telling you, or yesterday, as a matter of fact,
it went out yesterday on July 4th. Hope you guys had a great, uh, July 4th holiday weekend,
but we covered this in our newsletter. If you're not getting our weekly newsletter,
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you'll be the first to get notice of my videos each week. Now let's talk about Florida guys,
Florida, and I'm gonna share my screen with you and pull up the article that summarizes quite
nicely. What is happening there in Florida? Now the Florida Supreme court guys have, um,
has backed governor DeSantis his request for a statewide grand jury on immigration. Okay. And
this happened last week, the Florida Supreme Court approved the governor's request to impanel a
statewide grand jury to investigate immigration related issues, uh, such as the smuggling of
undocumented children into this state. And this, um, this decision is huge because it's statewide.
And one of the things that it does is that it empowers this grand jury to look into parents,
guardians, or other family members of unaccompanied alien children who have conspired
with transnational criminal organizations or other illicit actors to smuggle and thus endanger their
children. And so guys, you know that, uh, and let me just, uh, get this thing off the screen so that
you guys can see me. So you know that, um, you know, the, there's been some tragic news involving
migrants lately, uh, with the 50 migrants who were found dead, uh, in Texas just a week ago.
And, you know, the issues around migrants has been a very hot, hot topic, um, for the Biden
administration since day one, right? And so Florida is taken additional steps
to ensure that, um, the immigrants who are in their state, um, would not be, would not bring
their children here to the United States through, um, an organized effort by individuals out there
who are bringing or smuggling children and other migrants into the country. And so this grand jury
to go back to this grand jury, they're gonna be investigating these criminal organizations,
um, their members, or other illicit actors who smuggle or traffic children, or other,
or other illegal aliens to Florida, it says, and the article goes on to say that the Supreme court
said the grand jury will have jurisdiction throughout the state of Florida to investigate
return indictments, make present uh presentments and otherwise perform all functions of a grand
jury with regard to the offenses listed in the order. And then it, you know, it talks about the
fact that the governor had also, um, uh, put in place some other very strict laws, um, to
number one bar, state, and local government agencies in Florida from con um, contracting with
transportation companies that bring undocumented my, uh, immigrants into this state.
And then that law that I talked about, this is the same law, by the way.
Um, the same bill that talked about how Florida is now cracking down on sanctuary
policies, so to speak policies that would, um, the policy that Florida has recently put in place
would allow their local law enforcement, um, agencies to cooperate with ice. If an immigrant
is arrested, um, and be detained at a jail in whatever county in Florida, those individuals,
their information will be shared with ice. That's what, uh, the governor put in place
very recently. And I talked about this in one of my latest, most recent, um, immigration news
videos. So you may wanna go back and check that out now. Um, going back to this issue,
the petition, the petition said that, um, the reason for this, um, is because
the smuggling of undocumented children, um, you know, leads to, or it can lead to the sex sexually
exploiting them or using them for traffic in drugs or other we, or weapons into the country.
And, um, the petition goes on to say as more illegal, I, uh, as more illegal aliens, enter the
United States and settle in Florida more will seek to have their children illegally smuggled here
as well. Okay. And so guys, that's, that's the latest in Florida. Okay. That's the latest in
Florida. The governor is getting a lot of support from the judiciary. Obviously this is a Supreme
court DEC, um, decision, right? To create this or convene this statewide grand jury.
He's getting support obviously also from the legislature, right? They're in,
they're enacting new laws that are cracking down on, uh, undocumented immigrants being brought into
their state. And they're saying to those undocumented immigrants in their state,
well, if you're caught, if you're, if you commit a crime and you're in a jail somewhere in our
state or prison, uh, here in our state, guess what? We're gonna also share your information
with ice for a detainer and then will let ice, um, do their thing with respect to you.
So this is Florida, as I always say, every state in the us is very different. As you can see, based
on all these other Divi, uh, issues that divide the country, every state is different. Um, some
states are much harder on immigrants than other states. Florida is one of them, and now they're
getting a lot. Uh, the governor is getting a lot of support from judiciary and the leg from the
judiciary and the legislature on these issues. So I, you know, I'm looking out for like, what's next
Florida, what's next? How else are you gonna make it even more difficult for people, um,
to come into your state and to settle into your state in your state. Now, guys, uh, again, share
this information with others. We did cover it as I've mentioned in a recent newsletter. And I'm
just gonna give you, um, a quick glimpse of the newsletter, the top immigration newsletter that
we sent out, um, that does cover this issue. And it's the July 4th issue. It covered one of my
other recent news videos as well. Um, and then other things about the proposed U S C I S fees
guys, U S C I S is proposed a fee increase on its applications and petitions. So that's going on.
Then there's some new things around EEB five, the investor program, and, um, some other things
around immigration reform and such. So this is our newsletter. You wanna make sure that you
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I share and my firm and my team shares each week. It was a pleasure of being with you in
this session. Thank you so much for being with me and guys, I will see you in the next one.