Miami, May 9 (EFE).- The governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, said Tuesday that with the end within two days of Title 42, which allows the immediate expulsion of migrants, a “massive disaster” will occur in the southern border of the United States due to the foreseeable increase in the arrival of undocumented immigrants.
“This week we will see a massive disaster with the expiration of Title 42,” DeSantis said at a press conference today, who is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican primaries at any time for the November 2024 presidential elections.
The governor of Florida was referring to the end of the immigration policy declared during the national health emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic, and under which the government of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and that of President Biden they have applied the expedited expulsion of hundreds of thousands of migrants.
In a press conference offered in Miami, in South Florida, DeSantis pointed out that he is even willing to provide help for immigration control, despite the fact that it is not a state that borders Mexico and does not have jurisdiction for it.
“We will send people to help in that effort” to control immigration, DeSantis said before he expected relaxation of surveillance tasks in Texas as of the 12th.
He also maintained that in his opinion the idea that is transmitted to migrants that if they arrive in United States territory they will be released inside the North American country does not serve as a deterrent, for which reason he stressed that this form of action “is not going to to work”.
DeSantis also referred to the organized crime cartels that he said “bring people into our country” and also “massive amounts of fentanyl”, the opioid that wreaks havoc in the North American country.
“It’s killing people in Florida communities. Fentanyl is throughout the country, ”he stressed, after assuring that many families are losing their youngest members to this drug, which he associated with the transfer organized by criminal gangs on the southern border of the United States.
He said he supports strengthening the border wall with Mexico, which “will never be enough” as the cartels continue their illegal activities.
The governor delivered these statements at a Miami school, where today he signed five projects related to education, one of which will allocate more than 1 billion dollars in this year’s budget to pay teachers, an increase of 252 million compared to the previous.
During the signing of the legislative package at True North Classical Academy, DeSantis was joined by Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner, and Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz.
DeSantis highlighted the “Teachers Bill of Rights” bill that targets the right of teachers to teach in a safe and orderly classroom.
Regarding the bill that approves allocating more than 1,000 million dollars for teacher salary increases, he said that it is a record for the state of Florida.
