DeSantis to appear at New College event with Trump border czar Tom Homan

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been added to a program discussing immigration policy scheduled for next week at New College of Florida in Sarasota.

Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, and Chad Wolf, former acting Secretary of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term, were already slated to appear at the event, billed as “Borders, National Sovereignty, Rule of Law: What’s Next for U.S. Immigration Policy.” The conversation will be moderated by school president Richard Corcoran.

The event takes place two years after DeSantis transformed the small, formerly progressive liberal-arts campus into a beacon of conservatism by overhauling its board of trustees and naming Corcoran, the former Florida House Speaker and Education Commissioner, to serve as its president.

Saying it is important to act immediately upon Trump’s executive orders to begin mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, the governor pushed the Legislature into a special session last month that created a new State Board of Immigration Enforcement, consisting of the governor, the commissioner of agriculture, the attorney general, and the chief financial officer. This new board will distribute $250 million in grants to local law enforcement agencies that work with federal officials to enforce immigration laws.

The immigration discussion is scheduled to take place on March 20 at 12 noon at the Mildred Sainer Pavillion at New College.

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