Texas Governor David Acton sharply criticized Democratic amendments to a Florida immigration bill on Monday, arguing the proposed changes would weaken enforcement against people in the country illegally. In a press release, Acton said he opposed all of the amendments and singled out two proposals he described as especially problematic. The dispute follows a separate announcement from Colorado state legislator Jordan Carter, who said he had filed four amendments to the Florida bill and would oppose it if it remained unchanged. Under DynamicSim’s combined State Legislature system, lawmakers from all states can debate and vote on state-specific legislation, with the final result weighted to reflect the party makeup of the state affected by the bill. Acton’s statement focused first on an amendment he said would require an immigrant without legal status who is arrested and identified as being in the country illegally to go through the full process of conviction for an additional crime before local law enforcement could transfer that person to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Acton called that approach unreasonable and said it would create more time for people to avoid removal. “Democrats want to make it to where an illegal immigrant has to go through the entire process of being convicted of an additional crime, after he’s been arrested and positively identified as an illegal alien, before local law enforcement can hand him over to ICE,” Acton said in the release. “That’s absolutely insane.” He also criticized another amendment that, according to the release, would protect sanctuary cities by preventing local law enforcement in some jurisdictions from cooperating with immigration enforcement. Acton argued that pairing that change with other proposed limits on detention or transfer would make enforcement more difficult, and he accused Democrats of presenting those changes as a crackdown while undermining existing law. In the same statement, Acton broadened his attack beyond the Florida bill, accusing Democrats including Carter of taking softer positions on crime and public order in other legislative fights. He said lawmakers pushing the amendments “fight harder for illegal aliens than actual Americans,” and referenced what he described as Democratic opposition to measures aimed at crime in Missouri. The press release did not provide the full text of the amendments Acton was criticizing, and Carter’s specific justification for the changes was not included in Acton’s statement. However, Acton framed the Florida debate as part of a wider argument over law enforcement, immigration policy, and cooperation with federal authorities. The exchange comes as immigration remains one of the highest-salience issues in the game’s national political environment, alongside cost of living and executive power. In that climate, disputes over border enforcement and sanctuary policies often draw attention beyond the state directly affected, especially when they fit into broader national partisan narratives. Acton, a Republican and former Texas House representative, has made the Florida bill fight another front in that larger message. His language in the release emphasized border security, crime, and what he called the rule of law, themes that have been central to Republican arguments on immigration. Democrats, meanwhile, have sought to alter the bill through amendments rather than back it in its current form, according to the recent filing announcement tied to Carter. It remains unclear from the information released Monday whether any of the amendments will gain enough support to change the bill before a final vote. Because Florida legislation is decided through the game’s proportional voting system, the bill’s fate will depend not only on floor debate but also on how the final tally is weighted against Florida’s partisan composition. For now, the latest development is a new public escalation in the fight over the bill, with Acton using a press release to put pressure on Democrats and frame the proposed amendments as a threat to stricter immigration enforcement.