Quick! Name one thing Joe Biden and the deep state puppets that manipulate him have done to benefit the residents of Florida and Nassau County. Yeh, I couldn’t either.
While Biden’s inventory of beneficial programs is nonexistent the list of abuse and dishonesty his pathetic administration has leveled at Florida is extensive. Florida’s no-nonsense governor, Ron DeSantis, is combatting much of the incoming damage and alerting Floridians to the federal barrage of destructive behavior and legislation.
But like Starship Enterprise’s deflector shield, some harmful elements manage to get through and do damage.
Biden’s blatant disregard for the country’s borders and his ignorance and dismal performance on critical issues such as inflation, crime, taxes, the federal deficit, the supply chain, the pandemic, Afghanistan, etc. are having a local impact despite the governor’s best efforts.
One of the most egregious is Biden’s open border policies that are seriously infecting local children and schools. Thousands of unvetted illegal aliens invading the wide-open southern border from countries all over the world are being flown into Jacksonville by the federal government and being disbursed around the country, mostly to deeply Republican states. Many are infesting communities surrounding Jacksonville, including Nassau County.
People on these mysterious flights haven’t been vetted for criminal back grounds or tested for Covid. We don’t know who they are or where they come from.
Many are deposited in our local school districts including Nassau County.
I was alerted to a local resident’s concerns that a non-English speaking “illegal” who appears to be in his early 20’s and claims he’s 17, was enrolled as a freshman at Fernandina Beach High School. This parent is concerned for her young daughter’s safety.
How is this happening? How many other undocumented illegals are co-mingling with local students in the Nassau County School System?
I asked Nassau County School Superintendent Dr. Kathy Burns. She was very forthcoming, telling me that there are some 208 “English Language Learners” K-12 in the Nassau County system, with 33 at Fernandina Beach High School. She said the last time one of these students was enrolled at FBHS was in September. Biden’s middle-of-the-night flights started in July or August, maybe earlier.
Local tax payers are also footing the bill for translators for these people. Dr. Burns tells me bi-lingual “paras” are provided to the non-English speakers in 19 languages.
Who are they, where are they from and how old are these “students”? She can’t say. Probably because she doesn’t know and that’s not her fault. She’s not hiding anything. It’s Biden and his deep state federal operatives that are infecting our school system and dumping the “who knows who’s” into local classrooms.
Dr. Burns’ hands are tied. Due to federal privacy laws students can’t be forced to tell where they come from and the feds say they are entitled to a “free and public education.”
Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), the State of Florida may not deny primary or secondary public education to illegal alien children.
Data from a Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis of U.S. Census Bureau statistsics indicates there are 772,000 “unauthorized” immigrants in Florida. This does not include the more than 20,000 dumped into the state by Biden since he began flying them into Jacksonville from the wide-open southern border just a few months ago. The number is probably much higher, and more are arriving daily, with transportation paid for by U.S. tax payers.
This past October Rand Corporation reported that as many as 321,000 undocumented children were enrolled in the nation’s public schools between late 2016 and 2019, just ahead of the more recent and dramatic surge in illegals from Central America, Mexico, Afghanistan, Haiti, etc.
Roughly 75 percent of kids cited in a recent RAND Corporation study landed in just 10 states, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Louisiana. Their arrival prompted the need for additional hires: RAND calculated that seven states would need at least 2,000 more teachers and other personnel to maintain student-staff ratios.
Parents upset by this alarming situation can express their displeasure this coming November during the mid-term elections, write to their elected officials, speak out at local school board sessions, and most importantly stop voting for Democrats.
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Governor DeSantis Hits Back: Governor DeSantis accurately accused President Biden of running a “human smuggling operation” with the administration’s secret migrant flights into Jacksonville during an appearance this past Monday, December 13, on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” and at a December 10 press conference.
Saying the state has a “responsibility to stand up for the rule of law,” DeSantis said last week his office will propose a “series of legislative reforms” that will include barring any contractors who helped the Biden administration transport migrants into and across Florida from future contracts with the state.
“The border is obviously a disaster, and some people say, ‘Well, that’s a problem for Texas or Arizona.’ Well, actually, the Biden administration puts people on planes and flies them into Florida in the wee hours of the morning,” DeSantis said. “They’ve done over 70 flights in the last six months, dump people here. And we had — a few weeks ago — one of those people that Biden dumped, ended up committing a murder in northeast Florida. So, these are crimes that would not have happened but for Biden’s recklessness.”
The murder DeSantis referred to was a Jacksonville father of four killed by an illegal “smuggled” here on Biden’s midnight express.
“Our view is, if they’re going to be dumping — we want to be able to facilitate transfer to places like Delaware, and we have $8 million in my new budget to be able to do that,” he continued. “But we also look to these carriers that the federal government is contracting with, and we are going to pass legislation that says, if you are facilitating Biden’s policies, which is effectively a mass human smuggling operation, you are not going to be able to do business with the state of Florida or other local governments, and we are going to charge you restitution for each individual that you are bringing.”
DeSantis said in addition to the drugs and crime that come with the influx of illegal immigrants, the state has to deal with “health care costs, education, all of the services that get taxed because of Biden’s reckless policies and so we have a responsibility to fight back, and that’s what we’re doing.”
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Prepare Your Guest Room Joe: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis set $8 million in his 2022–23 budget to transport illegal immigrants out of Florida reports The Epoch Times.
He proposed the spending in the Freedom First Budget to protect against harm resulting from illegal immigration. The spending may include the transportation of unauthorized aliens located in Florida.
Governor DeSantis hits back.
“In yesterday’s budget, I put in $8 million for us to be able to transport people illegally [in the United States] out of the state of Florida,” he said during a press conference on Friday, December 10.
The governor listed Delaware, Biden’s home state, and Martha’s Vineyard, where former President Barack Obama owns a mansion, as potential destinations to relocate the illegals.
“If you sent illegal immigrants to Delaware or Martha’s Vineyard or some of these places, that border would be secure the next day,” he said.
The White House and The Obama Foundation didn’t respond to requests for comments from The Epoch Times.
DeSantis also encouraged more counties to participate in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) 287(g) program, under which individuals who have been arrested on criminal charges and are being booked into the county jails are asked about their immigration status.
Other proposed measures to reduce the harm of illegal immigrants include listing convicted illegal aliens on a public website.
DeSantis threatened to send illegal immigrants to Delaware back in November. He said his office is looking at legal avenues after his administration alleged that about 70 flights of illegal aliens were sent to Jacksonville, Florida, after being picked up by agents along the U.S.–Mexico border.
“We’re going to get together and figure out what we can do in the immediate term to protect folks in Florida,” DeSantis told reporters, noting that his options are limited because the federal government controls the immigration policies and actions.
But “if they’re not doing that,” DeSantis added, “then clearly the state should be able to come in and provide protection, and so that’s what we’re going to be looking to do.”
“If they’re going to come here, we’ll provide buses,” DeSantis said, before proclaiming, “I will send them to Delaware.”
He said his office will be proposing a “series of legislative reforms” to address illegal immigration and push back on President Biden’s immigration agenda including a move to bar any contractors who helped the Biden administration transport migrants into and across Florida from future contracts with the state.
“We have a responsibility to stand up for the rule of law,” DeSantis said.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it expects more than two million illegal immigrants to cross the border by the end of this year.
As usual no local media are reporting on this issue. Either they approve of it or are totally inept, possibly a combination of both.
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Meanwhile Back At The Ranch: Our current slate of Fernandina City Commissioners have outdone themselves yet again. The “ole Professor who knows more than most about city hall silliness, felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony at last week’s Commission session, with so many targets he hardly knew where to begin.
He said: “If you attended or watched that Commission meeting you, like myself, would be left wondering how five grown men can argue so much over the simple task of selecting volunteers offering to serve on advisory boards.”
He observed that the whole process was confrontational, obstinate, and childish beyond belief. Even the city’s slavish slobbering newsletter, the Fernandina Observer, appeared conflicted with Suanne Thamm penning an article “Who’s On First?” calling out the embarrassing episode in blow-by-blow detail.
“If these gentlemen cannot perform such a simple task, how can they be trusted to make more significant decisions?’ asks the ‘ole professor. Yeh, particularly when we’re talking about muti-million-dollar taxpayer funded waterfront projects, pricey golf course, airport and marina decisions, and much more. Good grief!
“Unfortunately, this group remains in office for another year, and given performance to date, we, the citizens of this city, must be ever vigilant of their behavior, and, more importantly, demand that any major decisions await the next Commission panel,” he added.
The ‘ole Professor says these folks have lost our trust.
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Breaking News: Governor DeSantis has proposed legislation that would allow parents and teachers to sue schools, and employees to sue employers who make them participate in policies or teaching involving the principles of critical race theory reports The Epoch Times. He has already banned the teaching of CRT in public schools.
The proposed Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (Stop WOKE) Act would be the first legislation of its kind in the nation, his office said, and would take on corporate “wokeness” and CRT in schools in a way that would allow employees and parents to push back.
“Nobody wants this!” DeSantis said about CRT.
The Stop WOKE Act would deem CRT training to be an unlawful employment practice.
The legislation would make clear that corporations and public sector employers violate the Florida Civil Rights Act when they subject their employees to training that espouses stereotypes based on race or sex, reported The Epoch Times.
It would also recognize CRT training, under the “guise of professional development,” to be a discriminatory practice in education—in K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities—and would require districts and schools to adhere to professional development frameworks “consistent with Florida’s lawful and publicly adopted state standards.”
“No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country, or to hate each other,” DeSantis said.
The legislation would give parents the ability to file lawsuits “to enforce the prohibition on CRT, and they get to recover attorney’s fees when they prevail, which is very important,” he said.
Instead of CRT, DeSantis wants students to be taught about the country’s founding documents and principles, so he’s introducing a plan for high school students to prepare for and take an exam, “like the citizenship exam that naturalized immigrants have to take.”
“Because at the end of the day, everybody that comes through our school system will go into a variety of different fields, but everyone’s going to be an American citizen, and they’re going to have duties and responsibilities. And they need to understand what that means. And they need to understand the principles that our country was founded upon.”
As part of his push to reinvigorate civics education in Florida schools, DeSantis announced a plan in his proposed budget to award $3,000 bonuses to teachers who earn a certification that shows they’re prepared to teach American civics with excellence.
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Dave, you’ve done it again. You’ve gone out and committed news.
Where are our local “newspapers” and “journalists?”
Wait, I know. They’re waiting for their daily script from the White House and the DNC.
My main problem with the un-
lawful assault on our Southern
Border ( unlawful by the Biden
administration and illegal aliens)
is the total disregard of the
health of our American citizens.
They are dropped off in large
and small towns uninvited and
unvetted or tested for the COVID
Virus.This is a blatant disregard
of the health and lives of these
townspeople.Maybe mister
Langshaw would volunteer to be
the official greeter and share his
home with these fine folks from
God knows where! Just saying
.
Good post, as usual. I take issue with allowing illegals to enroll in public schools anywhere in the USA period. Laws or changes to laws should be made and adhered to YESTERDAY.
It seems that commenters Langshaw and Kurpiers still have sandspurs under their saddles or in their tighty whities. But then, have you EVER met or heard from a happy democrat? And not a one is ever wrong! What a miserable life to be perpetually angry and ignorant. “Almost a year later…” and they still haven’t researched the truth nor can they see how badly their Biden needs medical help. Rest assured, they have their sensors and radars out for some perceived slight. And it’s PERSONAL.
It’s pretty easy to view my voter registration. It certainly helps from looking foolish when making assumptions.
I’m pretty sure that Richard Norman Kurpiers and Coleman Langshaw are one and the same person. Has anyone ever seen both of them together in the same place??
YES – I haven’t. They’re total opposites.
Kurpiers is analytical and rational (although occasionally incorrect) in his comments. He does a lot of research, but tends to quote the results he likes.
Langshaw is emotional, irrational and often quite imaginative in his comments. He does no research and shoots from the hip, while attempting to fit current topics into his predetermined world view.
My guess is that both personalities are figments of Dave’s fertile imagination. Have you ever seen Dave, Richard and Coleman sitting on the David Yulee statue/bench together? I believe that Dave posts comments under both of these pseudonyms in a futile attempt to create interest/controversy in what would otherwise be an extremely boring blog.
Mad Magazine had a running gag in their letters to the editor department: “The people who write your letters should write the rest of your magazine.” Dave is the opposite. He may be better at writing the letters.
p.s. I haven’t been seen with Dave, either.
One of my biggest dreads is running into Mr. Scott at an eating establishment. If it comes to pass, then I hope I have not yet ordered so I make my exit to enjoy my meal elsewhere. As for Mr. Langshaw, his sailing skills undoubtedly exceed mine so perhaps one day if I’m lucky enough we’ll find ourselves on the same sailing vessel where he’ll be kind enough to impart a tip or two. As an aside, Alfred E Neuman is much better looking than me.
Our federal government has WAY TOO MUCH POWER. The States need to take back the power and cut off the heads of our federal “monarchy”. They act like the monarchs handing out bread to appease the masses and then return to rape and pillage at will. The fight for freedom starts by taking back power from the feds, we can manage our own house without their help. When they overreach we need to find a way to strike back with equal force. Just to be clear, this is true for both parties. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Commissioner Bean acts like spoiled child when things don’t go his way. He seems to be like those that believe “participation” trophies should be given for simply being on a team no matter their contribution to the team’s success or lack thereof.
While I understand that egos would be bruised if a person submitting an application for a Board position comes in “last”, such is life. I have witnessed too many times the gamesmanship of the “first out of the gate nomination process” and it is just unfair to both the nominated person and to the other candidates. Under Bean’s suggested process, how would the nominated candidate feel if there is no second to the nomination. Talk about embarrassment. There is the well told story that Thomas Edison failed dozens of times before he successfully developed a working electric light bulb. A ranking of the candidates is good enough for the selection of the Charter officers, it should be good enough for the selection of board members.
According to “Deep Throat”, Dave asserts “I was alerted to a local resident’s concerns that a non-English speaking “illegal” who appears to be in his early 20’s and claims he’s 17, was enrolled as a freshman at Fernandina Beach High School. This parent is concerned for her young daughter’s safety.” Yeah, even the Washington Post had to get more than one unnamed source before publishing accusations against Nixon. and using Ms. Burns statement is not a verification of Dave’s alleged source, but then again, why get bogged down in details and bona fide journalistic vetting…just stir up the narrow minds and water-cooler set, and you get a bunch of attaboys. Jeez. And I LOVE that our wonderful Governor says he’s gonna round up the illegals and send them to Delaware and Martha’s Vineyard. What a crock of crapola, and the lemmings giddily applaud like its a fact and that he can actually do that…talk about ignorant and gullible. That’s why we can’t believe anything that comes out of DeSantis’ mouth, but then again 35% of the country still believes anything the the former BSer-in-Chief says. Pitiful.
Biden’s blatant disregard for our country’s immigration laws is an insurrection against the citizens of the United States.
Hey CoCoNutless, what do you know about insurrections? Were you in DC on January 6th? Oh, that’s right, your a card-carrying member of the Hypocrite Party…you called that a “protest”, even though the Capitol was ransacked by people wanting to kill the Vice President. Jeez, you are an amazingly un astute and myopic individual.
CoCoNutless ? Are you an expert on my nuts ? Listen fool, Jan 6 was just that – a Protest to the fraud committed in the swing states. You know it, I know it, Pelosi, Schumer, and Schiff all know it too. See you at the mid-terms ?
And yet, almost a year later and no one can prove election fraud. So despite your name-calling, it would appear the only fools were the insurrectionists trying to overthrow a legitimately elected president at the urging of the sorest loser in our country’s history. You know it, I know it, Republicans know it, and the Cyber Ninjas know it.
And the beat goes on…..and on
First “insurrection” in modern times where the insurrectionists had no guns. Also, how many have been charged with “insurrection”? I can help there, NONE. Furthermore, I think you would be hard pressed to support DJT’s urging anyone to storm the Capitol. Sorest loser? I think we heard from her the other day reading from what would have been her acceptance speech from 2016.
First “insurrection” in modern times where the insurrectionists had no guns. Also, how many have been charged with “insurrection”? I can help there, NONE. Furthermore, I think you would be hard pressed to support DJT’s urging anyone to storm the Capitol. Sorest loser? I think we heard from her the other day reading from what would have been her acceptance speech from 2016.
Check your facts, Mr. Cavallo. Three people are charged with bringing guns onto Capitol grounds. Others were charged with bringing arms and ammunition into DC. Far more have been charged with possessing and using dangerous weapons against law enforcement on Jan 6. You can believe the likes of Sen. Ron Johnson or you can believe the Capitol police who testified before Congress.
The few charged with possessing firearms were an anomaly. NONE of them was accused of shooting at anyone or even displaying in view a gun. The only shot fired that I know of was by a capitol policeman who killed one of the demonstrators, an unarmed woman. “Insurrection” conjures up hordes of armed combatants storming the “Bastille”. Using the term insurrection to describe this event is mislabeling. I again note, no one was charged with insurrection.
Quibble all you want, but those that were there, including members of Congress Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, immediately afterward described the *riot* as an insurrection.
The only thing the “insurrection” did Dick, was to allow the House to rush through a confirmation in the middle of the night. Quit whining and take a look at the number of people hurt and killed in all the peaceful protests that occurred, Mr. Facts Matter Kurpiers.
So let me get this straight, illegal immigrant children are allowed to enroll in Florida schools without the same documentation that is required from American and legal immigrants? According to the Nassau County School District’s website you need to provide the following to enroll a child in school:
Necessary documents:
Child’s birth certificate
Health examination certificate by a private physician or the County Health Department (The examination must be reported on a special form provided by the Health Department.)
Certificate of immunization for the communicable diseases of poliomyelitis, mumps, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, tetanus, varicella and Hepatitis B
Child’s Social Security card
Proof of residency (e.g., lease agreement, utility bill, etc.)
Where are the illegals getting these documents? Or do they not need them? And if they don’t need them, why do American and legal immigrants need them? If you can’t deny illegals a “free and public education”, you can’t deny that to American and legal immigrants either!
Great questions, Debra.
Dave, these should be your next questions for that follow-on interview with Kathy (the Dem in GOP clothing) Burns, Dave.
Right on the mark, as usual, Dave!
I’ve lived in many states and metro areas in the witness prot… er… in career moves, and I’ve never seen any politician like Ron DeSantis.
He and his predecessor Rick Scott have returned Florida to a true “federalist” relationship with the federal government, even if that government doesn’t want to play that way.
The Biden slide to socialism is obvious. What’s important to remember is that while “socialist” was in the name of the USSR, it was also in the name of the NAZI party.
The mandates, illegal acts and blatant actions that pit races against each other by painting some as evil and greedy while others are oppressed is right out of 1930 NAZI Germany’s Playbook.
I wonder how long before Herr Biden makes some of us pin labels on our clothing?
They are trying for those labels – vaccine passports! Followed by internment camps for the unjabbed, much as the are doing elsewhere. After that.. “You must feel dirty after your long train ride here. The showers are right over there…”
Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps is pretty disgusting and intellectually weak at best. Obviously you can’t empathize with survivors of those camps (internment or concentration), but I dare say they might just spit in your eye for trivializing their horrid experience to your trite and childish whining about wearing a mask! You probably think that banning smoking in public buildings is also a Nazi tactic, or how about getting a background check for our “Real ID” driver’s licenses? Its a mask, for god’s sake! Not a straight jacket or a pair of handcuffs, NOT even close. I wish anti-maskers and anti-vacc-ers would quite whining about it. Sure its an inconvenience, but its a far cry from real-world horrors like the holocaust. If you don’t want to protect yourself or your friends and loved ones, fine! Don’t wear a mask, just don’t whine if you or your loved ones get very sick or die. You have a choice and if your choose ignorantly, it no one’s fault but your own.
How DARE you think I’m trivializing the holocaust! My concern is jthat we are headed down that same slippery path. You say it’s only a mask. Well, it was only a star. Hitler scaoegoated the Jews, the brain dead filth in the white house is trying to scapegoat the unvaccinated. You don’t even know my Vax status, you just assume. Listen to Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop this so-called vaccine. He took it, but now regrets it and is speaking out against giving the jab to children, who are more resilient to the virus than adults. How about Dr.. Luc Montaigner,
winner of the Nobel prize in medicine, who said tat you cannot vaccinate your way out of a pandemic because viruses mutate, and will always evade vaccines, especially RNA viruses Perhaps if you opened your mind to a wider range of opinion than the nightly nres.. But then again you seem to be the consummate troll, always posting almost perfect cut and pastes of every post here. Mention the holocaust, you accuse the poster of trivialize g it. Mention David Yulee, we see your same tired post with TRAITOR in caps. Try for a bit of originality, ok?
Pretty ironic calling out someone for having a closed mind when, with a little digging, you’d discover Dr. Malone and Dr. Montaigner’s views aren’t shared by the vast majority of the scientific community. But I suppose when you subscribe to unfounded conspiracy theories it all makes sense to you.
Surely Dick, you know that scientist and doctors are paid well for their allegiance to political doctrine? Global cooling, then global warming, now climate change. How old are you? I guess not old enough to know gaslighting when you see it?
Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps is pretty disgusting and intellectually weak at best. Obviously you can’t empathize with survivors of those camps (internment or concentration), but I dare say they might just spit in your eye for trivializing their horrid experience to your trite and childish whining about wearing a mask! You probably think that banning smoking in public buildings is also a Nazi tactic, or how about getting a background check for our “Real ID” driver’s licenses? Its a mask, for god’s sake! Not a straight jacket or a pair of handcuffs, NOT even close. I wish anti-maskers and anti-vacc-ers would quite whining about it. Sure its an inconvenience, but its a far cry from real-world horrors like the holocaust. If you don’t want to protect yourself or your friends and loved ones, fine! Don’t wear a mask, just don’t whine if you or your loved ones get very sick or die. You have a choice and if your choose ignorantly, it no one’s fault but your own.
Interesting take on Biden given his opponent in the 2020 election, while in Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, insisted to his then-chief of staff, John Kelly that “Hitler did a lot of good things.” Never mind that a contingent of white supremacist/neo_Nazi Trump supporters showed up on Jan. 6th to overturn a free and fair election while threatening to kill members of Congress as well as the Vice President. But yeah, let’s instead blow on that tired old “socialism” dog-whistle to detract the gullible with a sleight of hand.