The following article was first published in a newsletter from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) on June 26, 2023.
New York — During a visit to Eagle Pass, Texas, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday unveiled a plan of immigration-related proposals labeled “No Excuses”, as part of his Presidential campaign for 2024.
Nadia Marin-Molina made the following statement in response to the recently unveiled plan:
“The governor of Florida has announced a plan to secure the border once and for all. ‘No excuses,’ he says. He is running for president to “stop the invasion,” and he will throw the full weight of the country’s muscle and money into keeping immigrants on the Mexico side.
Spoiler alert: The Ron deSantis Final Solution to immigration is not worth reading.
We read it. It’s a long wish list for nativists who think America has gotten too brown and black. For Republican primary voters and Fox and Newsmax viewers who have swallowed the lie that immigrants are invaders out to destroy America. It’s for those who dream of an American future that looks like its white supremacist past.
The plan is not a real policy document. It’s DeSantis trying to excite the excitable members of his paranoid base, and to get the media to play along.
It is unreal, surreal, and idiotic. It’s a violent fantasy of a deeply ignorant and toxic politician.
There is no other way to say it — when someone vows to build a 2,000-mile Israeli-style border barrier that is sealed tight against any incursion, to lock up every single migrant who crosses the border, to turbocharge the country’s already-immense detention and deportation machinery with ex-cops and former military members, to seal off a vast jungle in Panama, and to invade Mexico to fight drug cartels.
It’s all fantasy and incompetence and blather. The tragedy is that some news outlets may consider it worth discussing and debating.
Ron De Santis wants to run the United States the way he’s running Florida. Ask some Floridians if he’s handling the economy well. Ask them if he’s handling immigration labor well. Ask if he’s good for business and supporting the industries that make Florida run.”
– Nadia Marin-Molina, NDLON Co-Executive Director
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