A FUTURE PRESIDENT? – OVERNIGHT:  Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida continues his creative, fast-paced term, and will be up for re-election next year.  His record has earned him the right to be considered a major contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  From the New York Post: 

Now that the New York City Council has generously granted noncitizens the vote, it should be obvious why President Biden has laid out the welcome mat to migrants at the southern border.

Today’s illegal migrant is tomorrow’s Democratic voter, goes the calculus, and pesky formalities like citizenship just delay the glorious process.

Fittingly, one of Mayor de Blasio’s last acts of vandalism against the city will be to sign this abomination into law.

Cue Gov. Ron DeSantis, who plans to deport illegal migrants flown secretly into Florida from the southern border by the Biden administration.

Destination: Delaware, the president’s home state, or Martha’s Vineyard, Barack Obama’s holiday paradise.

“If you sent [them] to Delaware or Martha’s Vineyard, that border would be secure the next day,” DeSantis said Friday.

To that end, he allocated $8 million in last week’s state budget to fly the migrants back to elite Democrat enclaves, including Washington, DC.

It was a masterful piece of trolling, but with a serious purpose that other states should emulate.

After all, we know from open-source flight maps that “Biden Air” has been secreting illegal migrants all over the country, not just sending them to White Plains, but to Jacksonville, Fla., Alexandria, Va., Chattanooga, Tenn., Long Beach, Calif., and other destinations far and wide.

If the federal government is intent on keeping the southern border open and refuses to notify states when it dumps a new bunch of unvetted, unvaccinated migrants on their doorstep, it is up to governors to stand up for their communities and stop their services being overwhelmed by the influx.

Ever since the Post revealed that charter planes packed with illegal migrants were being secretly flown from border towns in Texas and Arizona into Westchester via Jacksonville, DeSantis has been on the warpath.

Unlike New York authorities who ignored the story, DeSantis snapped into action and enacted laws to “protect Floridians from the Biden Border Crisis.”

“You’re having 200,000 people illegally enter every month. That’s a medium-sized American city every month coming in illegally,” he said.

One of the smartest measures he announced last week was a crackdown on companies and nongovernmental organizations that facilitate illegal immigration into his state.

COMMENT:  I'd love to see him in the White House.  He's a man of action, and the action seems well calculated.  He will, of course, be called a racist, but that charge won't stick. 

The only element holding back DeSantis is Donald Trump.  If Trump runs, he could probably have the Republican nomination.  But those developments are way off.  DeSantis's first job is to get re-elected governor in 2022.  Current polling shows him in reasonably good shape against any leading Democratic prospect.

December 12,  2021