The hasty state of DeSantis’ emergency program, highlights the problems that can develop when state officials intervene to help manage the borders, a role reserved for the federal government. Cruise ship for Florida's migrant crisis had nowhere to dock:
A base camp for state workers in Islamorada, Fla., April 2023.
The ship was among the largest in a series of some $20 million in emergency purchases authorized by DeSantis — including drones, night vision goggles, airplane leases, aviation radios and other gear — to respond to the immigration influx. But the hasty state emergency program, including the ill-fated cruise ship contract, highlights the problems that can develop when state officials intervene to help manage the borders, a role traditionally reserved for the federal government.The Florida Division of Emergency Management acknowledged that it was forced to terminate the ship contract, but blamed the Biden administration for failing to authorize the use of U.S.
Haitian migrants would sometimes come ashore in groups of several hundred and then take off running, said Ramsay, who said he sometimes had to call in his deputies to chase migrants who had hopped into people’s yards and become “combative.” In late January, the state Division of Emergency Management signed a contract for the cruise ship to house the expected influx of state workers, records show.According to Florida records, the state signed a $1 million contract for the Ocean Navigator, a 286-foot-long ship with 101 state rooms owned by American Queen Voyages. For $30,000 a day, it would house and feed 100 state workers who would work for 30 days out of Key West.
There was another wrinkle: The Ocean Navigator is a foreign-flagged vessel, registered in the Bahamas, with crew members from all over the world. Concerns were raised about the possibility of foreign crew members jumping ship. The city of Key West had another pier the state could have borrowed, but, to use it, the foreign-flagged ship would need to pass through 300 feet of waterway that belonged to the Navy, and the Department of Defense refused because specialized training takes place nearby, Alecia Collins, a spokeswoman for the Florida emergency management division, said in a statement.
State records show a second contract from March — after the docking problems emerged — for $645,000, but it was unclear whether the state would pay that additional sum.
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