Ron DeSantis signed off on immigration legislation he says is the toughest in the nation, Florida's Republican leaders have named the director of the new state board of immigration enforcement: an architect of the controversial effort to fly migrants from Texas to a Massachusetts resort town.

Larry Keefe, who helped orchestrate controversial flights of migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in 2022, was named to oversee immigration enforcement in Florida.

A Florida appeals court in Tallahassee overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration was too slow releasing public records about its controversial 2022 airlift of 48 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Larry Keefe, who as public safety “czar” in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration helped orchestrate controversial flights of migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in 2022, was named Monday to oversee immigration enforcement in Florida.

Days after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed off on immigration legislation he says is the toughest in the nation, Florida’s Republican leaders have named the director of the new state board of immigration enforcement: an architect of the controversial effort to fly migrants from Texas to a Massachusetts resort town.

Larry Keefe, who as public safety “czar" in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration helped orchestrate controversial flights of migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in 2022, was named Monday to oversee immigration enforcement in Florida.