Gov. Ron DeSantis says undocumented immigrants are partly to blame for the high cost of car insurance.
“If we enforce immigration law, I think that’s going to help because the illegals don’t carry insurance,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Orlando.
“The illegals don’t drive very well. And so you get into an accident and then you’re just left holding the bag.”
As he’s argued before, DeSantis also said the state’s tighter immigration laws passed this year have already reduced traffic and potential for accidents.
“When we signed the immigration legislation, I had people coming up to me two weeks later saying they noticed the difference in traffic,” DeSantis explained.
“I think there is a fear that if you’re here illegally, you don’t have a license and you get in a fender bender, it’s not just going to be you skate anymore. Like you actually get sent back and deported to your home country.”
Of course, DeSantis’ other recent observations about Florida drivers have suggested that people legally in the state aren’t that great behind the wheel either.
“We have challenges with how the culture of driving is,” DeSantis said. “I was telling people when we had the snowstorm. Now, North Florida may be a little bit better than South Florida for driving, but I was afraid everyone’s going to be peeling out on this ice and stuff. And we were plowing it. And I think it ended up working out okay. But you have that situation.”
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