Ron DeSantis Pressed On Democrat Allegations Of Contract Removal From Alligator Alcatraz Website

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At a press briefing on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) spoke about allegations from Democrats about the contract for the Alcatraz facility.

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00:00we have any questions questions one I wanted to ask you about something we've

00:05seen consistent from from attorneys who say they still have not been able to

00:11access their clients even though they're using the email that the state has

00:15provided can you address that one and into my second question allegations by

00:20the Democrats who say that contracts related to the facility are no longer on

00:25the state websites that they disappear well I'll let Kevin address you want to

00:29address the contract issue so and we happen to have the CFO with us today and

00:37he and I were talking about this earlier the contracts not being on the website

00:41is false what our staff ended up doing was we actually put proprietary

00:48information on the website we have competitive contracts we are encouraged

00:54to do competitive procurements and by the way there's not a single sole source

00:57contract at this site that now that you got me riled back up again sorry about

01:01that everything here has been competitively bid off of master contracts

01:06that went to competitive procurement a year two three years ago so what

01:10happened was our team put the actual detailed line item PO that then now every

01:18other competitive contractor can see what their rate is so we took that down we've

01:23replaced it with summary sheets on the actual amount that they've been given so

01:28that's that's what's happening oh in the legal issue legal issue my

01:33understanding my attorney has told me that she has worked out the issues and we

01:38should have our first set of on-site legal representation no later than Monday

01:43and we're we're scheduled I'm looking for my guy we're scheduled to go with that

01:47almost 24 7 if if we need to so the space that we have we can do those those

01:53meetings all day long 24 7 365 but we had some technology issues we have now

01:58worked those things out and we should be starting that on Monday start

02:03deportation flights without people being having to access their clients some of

02:08the you know remember there's probably close to 800,000 illegal aliens that have

02:14already been ordered deported in this country Florida we have at least 50,000

02:1975,000 I mean so the idea that somehow you know you need some elaborate process in

02:26some of those situations it's just not factually true in terms of the law your

02:30DHS can answer on each individual folks but the whole purpose of having this is to

02:36be able to have a very efficient way to deport understanding that they have to go

02:43through this process I mean to be alive I mean to me it's like you know if if

02:48you're subjected to traditional criminal process there's a whole a bunch of due

02:53process that goes into that because ultimately you know are you are you

02:57guilty of this crime there's elements all this this should be a pretty simple

03:01process you either have a right to be here you don't and really that's what we

03:06need to determine when you do this and once that's determined if you're in this

03:11country illegally that then you should be subject to expeditious deportation and

03:16and that's the that's the goal of what this is doing but I I know that DHS has a

03:21whole process for how they do it now from the state's perspective we we ramp all this

03:26up we're running once they get on that plane DHS handles them and and process

03:31them deport them accordingly so and there's different ways I mean I know DHS has in

03:36some instances just deported people back across the Mexico border and that's fine

03:40I mean whatever whatever they think works is all good

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