Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Miami, noted Tuesday that DeSantis didn’t hold accountable a state road contractor after one of its employees, a Honduran immigrant in the country illegally, killed Pinellas Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Hartwick at a construction site.

DeSantis was an officer and Navy lawyer at Gitmo in 2006, when prisoners committed to a mass hunger strike. Guards there ultimately restrained and force-fed many of them using nasal tubes — a practice the United Nations Human Rights Commission deemed a form of torture.

Even as DeSantis called the new bill "weaker," legislative Republicans pushed their legislation through the committee process Monday.

The Florida Legislature rejected some of Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposals for an immigration bill and, in the name of Donald Trump, introduced its own.

DeSantis said his office was not involved in discussions about the bill that passed Tuesday, which he called “weak, weak, weak.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Central Florida Wednesday lashing out at the newly passed "TRUMP Act," a sweeping bill addressing illegal immigration that came from the Florida Legislature's special session last night.

Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to veto the recently passed immigration bill backed by Republicans in the legislature.

DeSantis said the new legislation would hinder his ability to marshal law enforcement agencies around the state to execute deportations.

The Legislature said its bill, approved late Tuesday, does what President Donald Trump wants as far as cracking down on illegal immigration.

The Republican dispute over how to best proceed on illegal immigration is playing out mostly online.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) teased a veto of the legislation in a social media post, claiming that the bill pushed by state Republican leaders is weak.