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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s federal government on Saturday knocked a difficult brand-new state migration law in Florida led by Republican Guv and U.S. governmental competitor Ron DeSantis, and the nation promised to assist secure undocumented Mexicans because state.
DeSantis is looking for the 2024 Republican politician election for president, and his brand-new Florida law, which worked on Saturday, is viewed as a sneak peek of the sort of hardline policies he would look for on migration enforcement.
Last month, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador advised U.S. Latino citizens to turn down DeSantis, implicating the political leader of attempting to win votes at the cost of migrants.
According to DeSantis’ site, the brand-new law consists of designating funds to move migrants without legal status out of the state; limiting access to ID cards; and needing more companies to utilize an electronic system to verify an individual’s eligibility to work.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry in a declaration stated the arrangements might trigger discrimination and racial profiling, and trigger hostile environments, intimidation and dislike criminal activities.
” Criminalization is not the method to solve the phenomenon of undocumented migration,” the ministry stated, explaining the brand-new procedures as driven by xenophobia and white nationalism.
It included that Mexico appreciates U.S. legal procedures, yet sees the Florida law as working versus collaborations by the U.S. and Mexico to deal with migrants with regard.
Mexican consulates in the U.S. will work to notify migrants about their rights and partner with civil society groups to determine prospective cases of abuse, the ministry stated.
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