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With information from Moses Cotton. |Cover photo: Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski speaks at a news conference at the Archdiocese of Miami Pastoral Center in Miami Shores, Florida. The sign in the background reads: “Kids, yes. Politics, no.” (Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis enacted a new law that prohibits public contracts with companies that help and transport immigrants and also expands the cooperation of local police with immigration authorities. Reported Fernando Castro Molina, immigration consultant.
In addition, the regulation expands the definition of “sanctuary policy” to prevent cities or counties in Florida from limiting or prohibiting local police from providing immigration information to federal authorities, which have exclusive jurisdiction in this matter, which is worrying. .
From now on, law enforcement agencies that operate a detention center must sign an agreement with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) to participate in the 287(g) program, by which local agents perform functions of immigration law enforcement.
At the same time, the governor also announced the formation of an “attack force” made up of members of state law enforcement, such as the Highway Patrol, and local agents to arrest human and drug traffickers.
The official emphasized that the law will protect the citizens of the State of Florida from the Biden border crisis” and will not allow companies with contracts with the federal government, to transport or care for undocumented immigrants, to have economic ties with state and local governments. in the region.
the last straw
The law, called SB 1808, at the same time, worries that it penalizes religious organizations such as Catholic Charities for caring for migrant children who arrive in the US, unaccompanied by their parents and those who are in a state of vulnerability, by denying them the state licenses.
This law puts a dispute between the governor and the Catholic Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, who denounced that the measure would force the closure of shelters that welcome immigrant minors, including those of Catholic Charities.
“An issue that I insist on, must be disseminated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Council for Attention to Migrants of Guatemala CONAMIGUA, in information campaigns in Spanish and Mayan languages, as part of their OBLIGATION to guide and inform compatriots of new provisions against the migrant population residing in Florida, USA,” said the immigration consultant, Fernando Castro Molina.
“It is almost certain that the orientation will not be carried out, so I require the collaboration of the media in publicizing it, as a service to the Guatemalan immigrant community in Florida,” added Castro Molina.
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