Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard reported that he will meet in Florida with representatives of his country’s community in the US to confront the anti-immigration positions of sectors of the Republican Party, especially the governor of the state, Ron DeSantis.
“It will be a representative congress. We are estimating attendance between 1,000 and 1,500 people who represent all the Mexican communities in the United States,” Ebrard told the press after participating in an event on the audiovisual industry.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) indicated that anti-immigrant positions and laws such as those of the state of Florida can generate a domino effect.
“If you allow the first domino to fall, well then the 24 states governed by the Republicans will follow and it will be the theme of the campaign,” he explained.
This government meeting with its Mexican compatriots residing in the United States, many of whom have the right to vote, is framed in recent statements by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who asked the Latino community not to vote for DeSantis in the upcoming elections. US presidential.
“I hope the Hispanics of Florida wake up and don’t give him a vote,” said the Mexican ruler during his morning press conference last Thursday, a day after the Florida governor announced that he would fight for the Republican nomination for the elections in 2024.
At the meeting, scheduled for June 30 and July 1, the Mexican government will address the matter with its compatriots, but Ebrard denied that it is an act of political intervention.
“I cannot intervene in the internal process of the United States, but I am going to speak with American citizens,” he alleged.
Ebrard denounced that the policies of DeSantis, who has led numerous disagreements with the migrant community in Florida, one of the states that welcomes the most foreigners from the rest of the American continent, are not constitutional.
“The basis of Mr. DeSantis’ law is racism, it is antagonistic to the Constitution of the United States, it is antagonistic to the Declaration of Independence itself,” he settled.
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