MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president referred to as on U.S. residents Monday to not vote for Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis due to his state’s enactment of a tricky immigration invoice.

The feedback concerning the Florida legislation, which the Mexican authorities has mentioned is more likely to trigger discrimination in opposition to migrants, marks President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s second current break with Mexico’s custom of non-intervention within the politics of different international locations. In March, he referred to as Peru’s authorities racist and illegitimate.

“We could not remain silent,” López Obrador mentioned of the Florida legislation at information convention Monday.

Under the Florida legislation that went into impact July 1, employers who rent immigrants who're within the nation illegally will face powerful punishments. It additionally bolsters DeSantis’ migrant relocation program and limits social companies for immigrants missing everlasting authorized standing.

López Obrador referred to as for “not one vote for those who despise migrants.”

The laws DeSantis signed into legislation final month expands necessities for companies with greater than 25 staffers to make use of E-Verify, a federal system that determines if staff can legally work within the U.S.

Another provision requires hospitals that settle for Medicaid to incorporate a citizenship query on consumption varieties, which critics have mentioned is meant to dissuade immigrants residing within the U.S. illegally from looking for medical care.

In a press release Saturday, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department mentioned the Florida legislation “will affect the human rights of thousands of people, Mexican girls and boys, exacerbating hostile situations that could result in hate crimes against the migrant community.”

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