Heads up, sanctuary cities. Governor Ron DeSantis has been given the go-ahead to send illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, Democrat-run cities that virtue-signal about welcoming everyone, regardless of legal status. The problem is that when border state governors take them up on their claims, the mayors of those cities have a hissy fit. Which is it? Are these cities welcoming everyone or not?

The Florida Legislature passed a bill that provides $12 million to fly illegal aliens to Democrat cities. This money will fund the program DeSantis used last year to fly illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard. That move, more than any other up until that point, fully exposed Democrats as the hypocrites they are. In February DeSantis signed the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program into law. It formally launched a new program to relocate illegal migrants from anywhere in the country to sanctuary cities and states. The bill passed by the Legislature helps to fund the program.

Last September DeSantis informally began the new program to send a message that Florida supports border states like Texas and Arizona in their efforts to send buses or flights outside their states with illegal aliens on board. The illegal aliens volunteer to be transported to other states and are given a choice as to which city they travel to. Immigration activists and other Democrats lost their minds when they dared to arrive at the very exclusive island location. The progressives who live there quickly and enthusiastically welcomed the migrants, mostly from Venezuela, with their best high school Spanish and hugs for the cameras. Then, they served them bowls of cold cereal and put them on buses to a military facility. There they were kept under supervision until they could be moved to their final destinations. How’s that for a welcome?

DeSantis exposed their hypocrisy. They couldn’t wait to get the migrants off the island. The bill also puts in place requirements for employers and hospitals.

Florida’s Republican supermajority legislature signed off on sweeping new legislation to appropriate millions for this initiative of transporting migrants.

DeSantis and his allies argue the bill sends a message to the administration that they won’t stand idly by while southern states are overrun by illegal immigrants and drug and human traffickers.

The law mandates medium and large-sized employers in the state to use E-Verify, a federal system that checks the citizenship status of applicants and new employees.

It also requires hospitals to inquire about the legal status of their patients and prohibits illegal immigrants from driving cars in Florida – even if they have a license from another state.

I look forward to more progressive heads exploding over being taken up on their offers to welcome everyone to their cities. The number may increase by a considerable amount with the end of Title 42 coming next week. The legislators also rolled back a 2014 measure that allowed illegal aliens to be admitted to the Florida Bar. (!) Wow. People in the country without proper documentation were allowed to practice law, even though they were breaking U.S. law. How did that happen? It is reported that the Florida House legislators debated for 90 minutes on that measure. One of the bill’s sponsors spoke of the high price of illegal immigration.

‘The price of illegal immigration cost us everything,’ said bill sponsor Rep. Kiyan Michael, whose 21-year-old son was killed in a car accident with an illegal immigrant. ‘There is not an ounce of malice in my heart … I just want it to stop.’

‘It has to stop and it is insane if we are waiting on Washington, D.C. to do something,’ said Michael, who won a GOP primary last year with DeSantis’ endorsement.

Democrats pledged to challenge the program in court. They say it is – you guessed it – racist.

Florida Democratic Rep. Susan Valdes, from Tampa, says that the bill ‘demonized marginalized people.’

‘Immigrants are people just like us except they did not have the fortune to be in the United States,’ said Valdes, whose parents immigrated from Cuba.

Perhaps the residents of Martha’s Vineyard should stock up on boxes of cereal and milk. They may be feeding extra mouths before they shuttle them off their island.