Ron DeSantis Slams ‘Illegal Alien’ Looters After Hurricane Ian: “Drag them out by the collars”

As if losing your home, loved ones, animals, and precious valuables wasn’t enough, many Florida residents faced looters as well.

Most of the heartless looters busted in hurricane-ravaged Florida were illegal immigrants. Some being the same ones shipped by vans and buses down from NYC with the promising of a job to clean up the destruction hurricane Ian left behind.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday, “I’d like to drag them out by the collars and send them back to where they came from.”

“We’ve had four looters that were arrested and they need to be brought to justice,” the tough governor said during an update on the devastation from historic Hurricane Ian. “But you know, three of the four are illegal aliens.

“And so these are people that are foreigners, they’re illegally in our country and not only that, they tried to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,” DeSantis continued.

DeSantis has never hidden that he is one of the fed-up Republican governors who has been sending border-crossers to Democratic sanctuary destinations. He has always stayed true to his intentions and how he feels when it comes to border control issues.

“I mean, they should be prosecuted, but they need to be sent back to their home country. They should not be here at all,” he said.

“If I could, I would take those three looters, I would drag them out by the collars and I would send them back to where they came from,” he again said to applause later during the briefing.

DeSantid was speaking about four people busted in Lee County, the Florida area hit hardest by last week’s devastating hurricane. Three men and a woman, Omar Mejia Ortiz, 33, Valerie Celeste Salcedo Mena, 26, Brandon Mauricio Araya, 20, and Steve Eduardo Sanchez Araya, also 20. The four were arrested on Thursday for burglary of an unoccupied structure during a state of emergency. Ortiz was hit with a petit larceny charge.

Meanwhile, DeSantis again warned would-be looters of potentially deadly consequences, saying that “Floridians’ right to defend themselves and their homes will be honored.”

“I do think that what has happened by having massive numbers of people coming across the border has not been good for this country,” he said.

He said on Monday he had interrupted his hurricane duties to attend a memorial service for Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Hartwick, who got killed by a twice-deported illegal alien from Central America.

“Someone was operating heavy machinery, was not eligible to work and had fraudulent documents, did not have the proper license, and ran over a deputy. How is that something that should be acceptable?” he asked.

“We can say without a shadow of a doubt that if you just had control of your border, that wouldn’t have happened. And that’s why they’re very preventable crimes,” he said to further applause. “So it’s really, really sad the situation that our country finds itself in with respect to our open border.”