Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may pay a heavy price for turning the state into a major stronghold of the American far-right while running for president.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) joined other organizations yesterday in warning tourists interested in visiting Florida that both DeSantis and his fellow Republicans in the state House are "openly hostile to African-Americans, people of color and the LGBTQ community.”
The NAACP thus joined the travel alerts issued days before, for the same reason, by the League of United Latino American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the country –founded in 1929– and by Equality Florida, a group who fights for gay rights.
LULAC denounced in its notice a law recently passed by DeSantis that imposes stiff fines on employers who hire immigrants without papers and invalidates identification cards and driver's licenses that immigrants may have obtained in other states.
The law in question is added to a battery of regulations against sex change treatments, the use of gender pronouns that do not adhere to biological sex, drag shows in places where children can enter, teachings on equality and identity of gender, as well as on the history of racism...
The mobilization of civic organizations coincides with Disney's announcement of its resignation from a billion-dollar investment due to DeSantis' obstacles to the company in revenge for his criticism of the law against gender education.
