Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) battled with the Republican-controlled Florida legislature for weeks over how to address illegal immigration in the state.

With his signature on several immigration-focused bills Thursday, DeSantis buried the debate and announced his willingness to come back together with them.

“I have no hard feelings at all,” DeSantis said at a press conference alongside Florida Senate President Ben Albritton and state House Speaker Daniel Perez, both Republicans. “These are not easy issues. There were different opinions on how to go about it, the timing, the substance, and we brought it all in for a landing.”

“We’re better off as a result of having done that,” he added. “So I think you’re going to see a very productive next two years. … This was, I think, a healthy exercise.”

DeSantis and the legislature clashed on who should be the top authority in the state on immigration. The governor believed it should be himself, while the legislature wanted to keep the power away from him.

The governor and the legislature settled on a four-person commission including DeSantis and the state’s agriculture commissioner, attorney general, and chief financial officer.

Albritton appeared emotional at the press conference, telling Perez that he loved him and that DeSantis’s leadership has been “phenomenal.”

“The last thing that I will leave you with is this, at the end of the day, what happened over the last 10 days leading to this event today is all about Floridians, and what I know is this: Going forward, once this is implemented, Florida families, Florida children, Florida grandchildren, fathers, mothers are going to be safer,” he said.

Perez agreed that the disagreement was “healthy.”

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“We may have had different ways of how to get there, but at the end of the day, those are discussions that were healthy, were necessary, and make democracy way better after the conversation has been had,” he said.

DeSantis signed three bills on Thursday that allow almost $300 million for immigration enforcement, mandate the death penalty for illegal immigrants who commit capital offenses, and increase all penalties for crimes committed by illegal immigrants.