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Discussion about illegal immigration gets heated when Florida's Chief Financial Officer scolds a newspaper reporter over some questions she asked.
One question from a reporter with the Daytona Beach-News Journal was about whether those detained are treated humanely.
"Are you doing anything to make sure that people are being treated humanely once they're detained?"
To which CFO Blaise Ingoglia replied...
"You want to talk about humane, let's talk about the drug cartels that are human smuggling and making billions of dollars smuggling the people from Mexico and into the United States. What is not humane is when you have young children being raped on the way over to this country and then in this country by criminal aliens."
Ingoglia also took exception to the reporter referring to those in the country illegally as "undocumented."
"First of all they are not undocumented, they are illegal. Let's get that straight. Undocumented is a nice way of saying they're breaking our laws."
The CFO was in Daytona Beach to present checks to law enforcement agencies, including the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and Daytona PD as reimbursement for their assistance with immigration enforcement.