Governor Ron DeSantis Boots The Chinese Communists Out Of His State

Hey, Joe Biden, America hopes you’re taking notes. This is the only way to deal with commies- you kick them out!

You’re not supposed to play nice with them. You’re not supposed to support them when they bully smaller countries like Hong Kong.

And you certainly shouldn’t be supporting your drug-addicted son when he sells American secrets to them.

Thank the heavens for American heroes like Governor Ron DeSantis. Here is a patriot who knows how to lead.

The Florida Legislature is targeting land purchases made by the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign authoritarian regimes.

Florida state senator, Jay Collins, authored the bill, S.B. 265, which passed in early April 2023. It was one of many bills steam-rolling through the Florida Congress, destroying the CCP’s presence.

The Appropriations Committee approved H.B. 1355 from Republican Rep. David Borrero and Democratic Rep. Katherine Waldron. The legislation covers similar ground to S.B. 264, which was previously passed unanimously by the Senate.

Borrero said the bill was a way to “protect United States interests, assets and land,” noting China and Russia have been working to undermine American interests around the world and in the U.S. itself.

S.B. 265 lists seven countries of concern: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and Syria. It prohibits state-government agencies from entering into contracts with those governments, bans people who obtain business licenses from the Florida state government from owning companies that work with or somehow benefit those foreign governments, and heavily restricts property purchases in Florida by the countries on the list.

“They don’t stand for what America believes and what our Founding Fathers envisioned, and it’s imperative that we shore up our security here at the state level as best as we can,” Collins said of the foreign regimes listed in his proposal.

Hey, Biden, are you taking notes? This needs to be happening on a national level, not just in one state. Stop playing politician with these communist countries and kick them out of our country. Pronto!

Collin’s new bill also restricts the governments of the countries on the list from owning, directly or via their principals, agricultural land in the state and from acquiring real estate within 20 miles of military installations and critical infrastructure in Florida.

But what’s really outstanding is the restrictions it places on land purchases that can be made by the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Republic of China, “any official or member” of the CCP and PRC, businesses that are principally based in China, and China-based individuals who are not U.S. citizens.

Collins stated his bill was inspired by estimates that Chinese entities own well over 350,000 acres of land in the U.S. and that foreign investors own 5.7 percent of Florida’s privately held farmland.

If those figures didn’t make you gasp out loud-they should. Why is China investing so much money into land ownership in America? What are they planning?

Florida was among the first states to pass such heavy restrictions on land ownership by entities and individuals tied to certain foreign authoritarian regimes, especially China. During its legislative session early in 2023, the Utah state legislature passed similar laws.

Several other state governments are considering the same restrictions, and several members of Congress are pushing their own land-purchase bills. DeSantis has shown strong support for restricting land purchases by the CCP.

Hey, Biden, are you taking notes? DeSantis is the leader America is desperate for right now.

State-level initiatives across America to ban specific land purchases by foreign governments have been fueled by recent incidents involving Chinese firms buying up land near military installations.

In one specific incident that struck America’s heart; the Air Force highlighted the planned purchase of land in North Dakota for a corn-milling plant by Fufeng, a Chinese agricultural firm, as a “significant threat to national security,”. The contested move by the CCP drove heated debates nationally and locally in North Dakota.

The plant would have been twelve miles away from the Grand Forks Air Force Base. While the Grand Forks local government subsequently blocked the project, Fufeng will still own the land.

DeSantis has given us the scary truth about the CCP:

“If you look at the Chinese Communist Party, they’ve been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land and investing in different things,” the Governor said at a previous presser.

“And, you know, when they have interests that are opposed to ours, and you’ve seen how they’ve wielded their authority — especially with President Xi (Jinping), who’s taken a much more Marxist-Leninist turn since he’s been ruling China — that is not in the best interests of Florida to have the Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases.”

Hey, Biden, are you taking notes? China is playing war games with America. We now know you’re not capable of leading our country into these uncertain times.

Thank the heavens patriots like Ron DeSantis have the courage to be strong leaders.