california legislature—2023–24 regular session
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 113
Introduced by Assembly Member Low
August 15, 2023
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 113—Relati ve to the investigation of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
legislative counsel’s digest
ACR 113, as introduced, Low. State government.
This measure w ould urge that Florida Go vernor Ron DeSantis be held accountable and investigated for the criminal nature of specified actions, and that the United States Department of Justice in vestigate the governor for Florida’s Unauthorized Alien Transport Program.
Fiscal committee: no.
line 1 WHEREAS, On June 2, 2023, and June 5, 2023, tw o planes line 2 carrying 36 migrants arri ved in the City of Sacramento without line 3 warning; and
line 4 WHEREAS, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ office confirmed line 5 that they were responsible for sending the planes of migrants to line 6 California; and
line 7 WHEREAS, The arriving migrants have shared that the woman line 8 who initially approached them falsely promised that if they came line 9 on the flight to California they would be helped to find jobs; and line 10 WHEREAS, These migrants, who did not kno w where the y line 11 were when they arrived in the City of Sacramento, were “lied to line 12 and deceived”; and
99 line 1 WHEREAS, Go vernor DeSantis has chosen to e xploit a line 2 vulnerable population and the high volume of people immigrating line 3 for his own political gain using false promises and deception; and line 4 WHEREAS, Though the Sacramento community has come line 5 together to support the 36 people who arri ved unexpectedly, we line 6 need to mak e it ab undantly clear that people cannot be used as line 7 pawns in political games; and
line 8 WHEREAS, The Bexar County Sherif f’s Office in Texas has line 9 investigated criminal char ges related to Go vernor DeSantis’ line 10 previous similar stunt of sending tw o planes of migrants from line 11 Texas to Martha’s Vineyard; and
line 12 WHEREAS, A similar federal in vestigation is necessary to line 13 condemn Governor DeSantis’ actions; and
line 14 WHEREAS, The United States Department of Justice has line 15 jurisdiction to investigate these crimes, which touch at least fiv e line 16 states; now, therefore, be it
line 17 Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate line 18 thereof concurring, That Florida Governor Ron DeSantis be held line 19 accountable and be in vestigated for the criminal nature of his line 20 actions; and be it further
line 21 Resolved, That the Le gislature ur ges the United States line 22 Department of Justice to in vestigate Florida Go vernor Ron line 23 DeSantis for Florida’ s Unauthorized Alien Transport Program; line 24 and be it further
line 25 Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies line 26 of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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