Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is not about to play word games with liberal reporters who want to whitewash illegal immigration.

During a press conference on Thursday a reporter used the euphemism “undocumented immigrants” and was quickly corrected by the governor.

“I have four questions. Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are working in areas,” the reporter said before the governor cut him off.

“You know the federal government has made clear that the statutory term, it’s not ‘undocumented,’ they’re ‘illegal aliens.’ That’s the statutory term, that’s what it is,” DeSantis said.

“To try to water down — I mean like, ‘undocumented,’ it’s like if I get in my car and I forget my wallet, OK, I don’t have my document on me like my driver’s license, but I mean I still have a right to drive. I just made a mistake. This is intentional, to come in illegally. It’s not just a question of missing a document, it’s a question of you violated the law, very clearly and knowingly, and with the help of the cartels, in many cases,” he said.

“So I’ll rephrase that. So, Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants — who are illegal aliens, if you wanna call it — who are working in areas of agriculture, farming, construction, and hospitality. I’m just wondering, once we start to see significant roundups of these people, is there a plan in place to help those industries, to prevent those industries from experiencing true hard hardship, financial hardship?” the chastised reporter asked.

“So here’s what I’d say they, they made the same arguments in 2023 when we did our immigration, we did E-Verify,” the governor said.

“Now any of those industries, when they hire new people, they’ve got to verify their immigration status, otherwise they can’t work,” he added.