{"id":213457,"date":"2026-03-31T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:38:10","slug":"immigration-emergency-extended-by-desantis-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213457\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Emergency Extended by DeSantis \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alligator-Alcatraz.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s state of emergency due to illegal immigration remains in effect. Gov. Ron DeSantis last week extended the executive order declaring the emergency he first issued in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration has enabled him to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in three years on immigration enforcement efforts \u2013 normally the purview of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, a state of emergency issued by a governor only lasts for 60 days, and must be extended to stay in effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 the Legislature set up an emergency trust fund to pay for declared emergencies, but Democrats were angered when DeSantis used the fund to pay for \u201cemergencies\u201d that weren\u2019t the result of a natural disaster, such as immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The fund expired in February, and lawmakers passed a bill this year to resurrect it and extend it until July 1, 2028, but the measure (SB 7040) hasn\u2019t been sent to DeSantis\u2019 desk yet.<\/p>\n<p>Money from the fund has been used to pay for Alligator Alcatraz, the detention center in south Florida, and other detention centers. DeSantis has said the federal government will reimburse the state for $608 million but the state hasn\u2019t received the funds. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774985890_369_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo lazy\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Florida\u2019s state of emergency due to illegal immigration remains in effect. Gov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-213457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}