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FLORIDA IS IN FULL BLOWN CRISIS, as Gov. Ron DeSantis has publicly declared WAR on his own city employees, suspending a woman for the “crime” of warning the public. This SHOCKING move exposes a terrifying new reality: In the Sunshine State, informing your community is now a fireable offense. The governor is branding basic humanity as a DIRECT ASSAULT on law and order.
Yanira “Yaya” Cardona, Jacksonville’s own Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, was BRUTALLY silenced and placed on administrative leave after performing a simple act of compassion—using an Instagram livestream to alert residents about increased ICE activity, describing them as “speed traps” and naming specific roads. Her “offense”? Telling hardworking families to “stay home” and “comply” if approached. For this, she was PUNITIVELY suspended by a city now buckling under DeSantis’s iron fist.
DeSantis didn’t just defend ICE; he ISSUED A THREAT to an entire state. “That’s not the way we roll here in Florida,” he thundered, vowing “consequences” for anyone who dares question aggressive enforcement. He then pointed to a separate case, warning a woman accused of assaulting a trooper, “This is not Minneapolis. That is not going to end well for you in Florida.” His message is CHILLINGLY CLEAR: dissent will be crushed.
The City of Jacksonville’s Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, Yanira “Yaya” Cardona, who was appointed by Mayor Donna Deegan, right, was placed on administrative leave. (Bob Self/Florida Times-Union/USA Today Network)
The city’s response is a MASTERCLASS in bureaucratic betrayal. Officials claim Cardona’s information was “common knowledge,” and Mayor Donna Deegan lamely insisted the suspension was only for violating social media policy, not the content of her warnings. This is a CONVENIENT LIE. It reveals a leadership class more terrified of the governor’s wrath than of the fear gripping their own constituents. They are actively enabling a regime where “outreach” is punished and silence is mandated.
What Cardona described is a TARGETED HUNT. She warned that ICE was specifically staking out lawn care and A/C companies, checking for “paperwork”—a modern-day stop-and-frisk policy aimed at an entire community. Her pragmatic advice to have a lawyer and a plan for your children paints a picture of a population living UNDER SIEGE in their own city.
ICE officer uniform. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
This is MORE than a personnel issue; it is a GLARING RED FLAG for American democracy. When a governor can weaponize a city’s bureaucracy to punish a coordinator for giving legal advice to frightened families, the line between governance and authoritarian control has been CROSSED. DeSantis isn’t just enforcing laws; he is enforcing a chilling culture of fear and retaliating against those who would alleviate it.
The suspension of Yaya Cardona sends an unequivocal, bone-chilling message to every public servant and every citizen in Florida: in the war on immigration, compassion is the enemy, and silence is your only protection. Ask yourself tonight: if warning your neighbor can get you fired, what other freedoms are already GONE?
Author: Kayitsi.com
