Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday supported state law enforcement officials who are encouraging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to seek new employees from among people who aren’t already assisting in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort.

ICE recently sent recruitment letters to “a lot” of Floridians working in state agencies and “dangling like a lot of bonus money and all this other stuff,” DeSantis said during a press conference at Florida Highway Patrol Headquarters in Orlando, Florida.

“I know some sheriffs have had concerns that that’s happening,” the governor said. “It’s like, ‘Hey, we’ve been doing all this stuff to help you guys, and now you’re trying to poach our people who are already in the fight. Why not recruit additional people to be supplementing that instead of just kind of displacing.'”

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