{"id":264023,"date":"2026-05-08T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264023\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:17:10","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-to-combat-foreign-influence-from-countries-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264023\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis signs bill \u2018to combat foreign influence\u2019 from \u2018countries of concern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis visits Bay of Pigs Museum &amp; Library in Miami\u2019s Little Havana<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gov. Ron DeSantis stopped at the Bay of Pigs Museum &amp; Library on Friday in Miami\u2019s Little Havana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During his speech, DeSantis said Brigade 2506 fighters were on the right side of history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf Cuba was free, it would be an amazingly successful country,\u201d DeSantis said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DeSantis signed the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement bill into law, aiming to restrict influence from \u201cforeign countries of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related document: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/905\/BillText\/er\/PDF\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/905\/BillText\/er\/PDF\">Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement (FIRE) Act<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The law\u2019s key provisions include bans on surrogacy or adoption contracts, penalties for officials accepting foreign benefits, and restrictions on lobbying and government contracting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DeSantis said Cuba needs regime change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t do business with criminals,\u201d DeSantis said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The law also applies to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Janine Stanwood\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/21e83aab-f6c0-4437-b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Janine Stanwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Janine Stanwood is an Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM DeSantis visits Bay of Pigs Museum &amp; Library in Miami\u2019s Little Havana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-264023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264023","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=264023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}