Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is suddenly under fire, including from some backers, for signing a fairly strict abortion law [Big Republican Donor ‘And a Bunch of Friends’ Back Off DeSantis Over Culture War Politics: ‘Very Big Problem’, by Caleb Howe, MediaIte, April 15, 2023 ]The U.S. political class, Left and Right, loves the abortion issue. But more significant from VDARE.com’s point of view: the attack the New York Times launched on DeSantis earlier last week, claiming he is pushing radical legislation to the Sunshine State inhospitable to illegal aliens [DeSantis Pushes Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation, by Miriam Jordan, April 10, 2023]

Please share. A DeSantis backed bill would establish felonies for having undocumented people in your home or cars, even if related. In Florida, there are 722,000 U.S. citizens who live with an undocumented person. They could face up to 15 years in jail.https://t.co/x0KrxamwPU

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) April 10, 2023

The legislative package does show DeSantis is solid on illegal immigration. But it also invites the question as to what he thinks about legal immigration—especially the current influx of Cuban aliens. DeSantis could set himself apart from the GOP Presidential field by adopting full immigration patriotism including a plan to stop all immigration. But will he?

Amusingly, the NYT’’s coverage almost seemed ripped from a De Santis campaign ad:

The bills would expose people to felony charges for sheltering, hiring and transporting undocumented immigrants; require hospitals to ask patients their immigration status and report to the state; invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants; prevent undocumented immigrants from being admitted to the bar in Florida; and direct the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to provide assistance to federal authorities in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.

Mr. DeSantis has separately proposed eliminating in-state college tuition for undocumented students and beneficiaries of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, who were brought to the United States as young children.

DeSantis’ bill is the “most far-reaching state immigration legislation” since Arizona’s SB1070, the NYT’s Jordan claimed. Of course, Jordan [Tweet her] had to add that “critics warn the proposed new legislation, by targeting some long-established residents of the state, will sow fear, promote racial profiling and harm Florida’s economy, and some Republican business leaders have come out against it.” That provided her the chance to boost cucky Republican governors like Utah’s Spencer Cox, who wants Congress to pass Amnesty. As well, Jordan found the Treason Lobby suspects to denounce the plan as an appeal to the “extreme right.”

VDARE.com has previously reported on Florida’s plan to curtail illegal immigration and praised it as a model for other states. Mandatory e-Verify and preventing illegals from even living in a state would go a long way to making the whole country unwelcome to foreign invaders.

But still unmentioned is legal immigration. Too many proponents of the De Santis legislative package want to emphasize that they still support it:

“There’s a right way and a wrong way to come here,” GOP state senator Debbie Mayfield said during a hearing on the bills. “We have a process in this country. We’re not trying to hurt or harm people who are here legally.”

Thus some DeSantis people took umbrage with the NYT headline, which didn’t specify that the bills targeted illegal immigration. DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw tweeted that the headline should be corrected to read “illegal immigration,” and criticized the NYT for not knowing the difference. DeSantis supporters on Twitter parroted that line. DeSantis World apparently wants that aspect of the legislation made loud and clear.

*Illegal immigration

(We know why NYT never makes that distinction) https://t.co/sRrzSXrMwr

— Christina Pushaw