DeSantis Slams Biden For Charging Americans Evacuees From Israel While Paying To Fly Illegal Immigrants

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida criticized President Joe Biden during a speech Friday for charging Americans for their evacuation of Israel while his administration pays to transport illegal immigrants across the United States.

DeSantis’s speech, delivered at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. as part of its Mandate for Leadership Series, attacked the Biden administration for charging U.S. citizens the cost of government-provided travel to evacuate Israel following its declaration of war against Hamas, suggesting that it “wasn’t right.” He contrasted that action with his administration’s efforts to evacuate Florida citizens from Israel, which has been provided free of cost.

“The State Department and the embassy, they weren’t doing what needed to be done to get Americans back home. Eventually, they said they’ll dump you in Greece and then charge you for that. And I thought to myself, you know, if you come into this country illegally, they don’t charge you to fly you all over the place. They put you in hotels. They don’t charge the illegal alien, but yet Americans fleeing a warzone are somehow gonna get a bill? It isn’t right,” DeSantis said.