Florida's governor, who is expected to announce his candidacy for president soon on a markedly anti-immigrant platform, will also send unmanned drones, boats and other resources to the border. DeSantis has said for several weeks that he was preparing a plan focused on immigration, while intensifying his friction on the issue with President Joe Biden.
Title 42, the health law that allowed since 2020 the express expulsion of hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico, was ended last Thursday by the Obama Administration.