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DeSantis picks fight over immigration law backed by his LG, Scott
Hello and welcome to Friday. Check the clock — That was then. This is now. Five years ago — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first campaigned for governor touting a hard line on immigration. On the radar— When he picked Jeanette Nuñez as his lieutenant governor back in 2018, the question even back then was whether DeSantis would target one of her big legislative wins: a law that guaranteed in-state tuition rates for undocumented children of migrants if they had attended a Florida high school for three years. It was a measure that was opposed by some Republicans at the time but passed after a strong push by both then-House Speaker…


