This Monday the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked not to vote for the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who is in the electoral race for the presidency of the United States, because this weekend the controversial law came into force law SB 1718 that against the undocumented with strong measures.
Florida’s controversial rule SB 1718, which, among other things, penalizes companies that hire undocumented immigrants, hospitals, and people who collaborate with immigrants, has caused thousands of undocumented immigrants to move to other states, fearful of possible deportation. in the midst of an internal exodus from the United States.
The new regulation in Florida requires companies with more than 25 employees to use a program to verify the immigration status of each of their employees, and makes it a crime to travel in a car across state lines with an undocumented person serious that can lead to a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
In addition, the SB 1718 law also makes it difficult for the undocumented to access medical care and ignores driver’s licenses issued by other states to people without legal immigration status. “We cannot remain silent, if the United States is a great nation it has been because of the migrants. And he is for the wall and for the mistreatment of migrants, he aspires to be a candidate for the presidency for the Republican party,” said López Obrador.
Given this, the Mexican president, and one of the most critical of the positions of Governor DeSantis and Texas Governor, Greg Abbot, said that his government is against immigration reform, that it is against migrants.
SB 1718 threatens almost 400,000 undocumented immigrants who work in six important sectors in Florida, which represents almost 10% of the state’s labor force. “Not a vote for DeSantis, the one who doesn’t love his homeland, he doesn’t want his mother, not a vote for those who despise migrants,” said the Mexican president at his daily press conference.
Florida’s new immigration measures will directly affect work for undocumented people, their children’s schooling, and their access to the public health system.
With information from EFE
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