- Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said the United States should not accept refugees who are fleeing the Gaza Strip, even as the war between Israel and the Hamas militant group intensifies over the weekend.
- “I am not going to do that,” DeSantis said at a presidential campaign event on Saturday. “You don’t fly people and import them into the United States of America.”
- DeSantis remained adamant the U.S. “cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” arguing instead that surrounding “Arab states” should take them in.