The “We Are All Florida” caravan left California this Monday for Arizona, on a journey that includes stops in several states to gain support and educators about the anti-immigration policies that Governor Ron DeSantis has been classified as devoid of any principle. to human rights.
Over the weekend, a group of Latino leaders from southern California started a caravan that left the southern city of San Diego, and plans to rally support on its way to Florida, where they plan to protest on July 1. Now, the caravan has crossed the California border and is traveling through the state of Arizona.
Immigrant rights activists have scheduled demonstrations at each of the stops they make during the journey to the southern state of Florida. “We hope that this caravan becomes a convoy with many people from their cities, aware of this fight,” Juan José Gutiérrez, director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, told EFE.
The caravan will make stops in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Las Cruces, New Mexico; El Paso, San Antonio and Houston; Texas, and New Orleans, in Louisiana. A group from Chicago will also leave to join the caravan at some point. Together with the caravan, the activists simultaneously promote a boycott of Florida products and tourism to that state, since certain sectors of migrants in that state consider that the measures are even dangerous for Hispanic tourists.
“There has really been a massive outflow of immigrants from Florida, and this affects everything, but more so the farm workers, who are so valuable in this nation and whose rights are given very little visibility,” he said. Pedro Ríos, director of the Comité de Servicios de los Amigos border project, told EFE when the caravan left San Diego.
During this week, more than a dozen organizations from Los Angeles joined the caravan that will travel from California to Florida starting this Friday in protest against the immigration policies of the governor of the Sunshine State, Ron DeSantis. The Republican leader returned to the eye of the hurricane before the new mechanism to send people from Texas to California.
With information from EFE
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