Crackdown on Florida Criminal Aliens

DeSantis: FHP arrests 3,000 in immigration crackdown; Kerner attacks Post arrest story

Highway Safety chief Dave Kerner, a former Palm Beach County official, called a July 22 story about the arrest of a U.S. citizen a 'false narrative.'

No surprise about The Palm Beach Post...that's why I ended my subscription after 40 years...all that biased "reporting."

Florida Highway Patrol troopers have "apprehended almost 3,000" undocumented immigrants so far this year, and that number will continue to go up as the agency prepares to set up a new strike team to increase arrests, officials said Aug. 1.

At a press conference in Orlando at Florida Highway Patrol Troop D Headquarters, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the Florida Highway Patrol will establish a new unit: The Immigration Enforcement section within the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles' Bureau of Criminal Investigations and Intelligence.

The team will work closely with state and federal agencies to "identify, locate and apprehend criminal aliens across the state," DeSantis said. "There's no other state that is even in the ballpark of our efforts."

At the press conference, FHSMV executive director Dave Kerner also criticized The Palm Beach Post's coverage of the arrest of Kenny Laynez, a U.S. citizen who got detained in a federal immigration crackdown. 

Dave Kerner – previously a Palm Beach County Commissioner and state representative who is from Lake Worth Beach– said reports of the video were "a false narrative" and "trying to change history," and said prosecutors, who dropped the resisting an officer without violence charge against Laynez, were encouraging people to resist arrest.

"If this continues, it's certainly above my pay grade, but I do not think it's going to end well for that prosecutor," Kerner said.

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