sovereignty. desantis remarks were welcomed by locals and potential voters. after getting briefed by texas dps troopers and going on a boat tour of the rio grande, he offered up his own solutions to the problem including building a border wall, taxing illegal immigrants remittances, changing rules of engagement to allow deadly force to be used on anyone cutting through the border call. at the end of the day, a country has borders and borders matter. you either enforce the borders or you re not a country. we have not done a good job of that lately. we ll have a new sheriff in town on january 20th, 2025. he has criticized trump. saying the trump administration didn t fulfill the promise and he will be much more assertive. we ll have to wait and see.
meeting with potential voters here in eagle pass where he is going to lay out his plan for the border. eagle pass, the epicenter of the border crisis the last couple of years and show you what he saw when he got here last night. we were with him late yesterday afternoon as he arrived here in eagle pass, met with texas dps troopers for an operational briefing. shook a lot of hands. thanking him for sending florida law enforcement to eagle pass and the southern border to repel the invasion happening at our southern border. he saw some of the hot spots and we joined him on a boat tour of the rio grande. look at this video. we joined him on the florida fish and wildlife boats. we started seeing multiple groups of migrants crossing illegally in broad daylight right in front of the governor and myself cruising the river. some in the water, in the process of crossing illegally. others had already crossed over and being blocked by the state of texas with shipping containers and barbed wire.
horn them into this country against the law. so we ll definitely do that. to the extent you have some that are adjudicated people can wait in mexico for that ajudd indication. you don t come to the interior of the country and get a free pass. it is less appetizing to make a trip like that knowing you don t apply in the first place and you don t get a decision. it will dry up in the numbers of people who want to come. we have people in florida helping. i was in eagle pass yesterday, we did a boat tour, we did the helicopter but we have a lot of our guys, some of our fish and wildlife folks, highway patrol and so we ve put a lot of people, we have national guard from the state of florida and we believe it is important. but what i think needs to happen is if the federal government won t do its job, the states should be permitted to send people back. that is what you need to do.
security plan after making the first visit to eagle pass, texas. bill melugin is live in eagle pass with more. what are some of the highlights of the plan? trace, one of the biggest things is governor desantis says if he s president, he intends to change rules of engagement to allow for deadly force to be used against anybody coming through the border wall. he adds if you drop a couple of these cartel operatives, they will stop coming. take a look at this video this morning. governor desantis meeting with local voters here in the border town of eagle pass. the epicenter of the border crisis the past couple years. he promises to build a border wall, to end catch and release. he says he would push to end birth right citizenship. we were also with him as he got a boat tour of the rio grande. within moments of joining governor desantis on the boat,
us. martha: tomi lahren and chris anderson standing by. first bill melugin live in eagle pass fresh from an interview with the florida governor. hi, bill. martha, one of the things that governor desantis said he would like to do is deputize state and local law enforcement to carry out immigration law at the southern border. police officers, state troopers could deport people. that would be a huge change in policy. take a look at this video this morning. governor desantis meeting with voters, making his pitch on what he d do at the border. he says he would build a wall, tax illegals and catch and release, try to end birth right citizenship. the voters were receptive to him. we joined him on a boat tour of eagle pass. take a look at this video. we were with him on a fish and wildlife boat. in a couple minutes, we saw